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...Fortunately, there are other ways to increase bone density. Weight-bearing exercises help, and there are several prescription drugs that have been proved to work. For more information, talk to your doctor. And be sure to have a colonoscopy by age 50 - or 45 if you are of African descent. (You may need one even earlier if you have a family history of colorectal cancer.) It's a lot to keep track of, but nobody ever said prevention was easy...
Making Irish culture in Boston more prominent does not depend on just appealing to people of Irish descent. Both O’Donovan and O’Reilly draw audiences from outside the Irish community. O’Donovan says that some 50 to 60 percent of his audience is of a non-Irish ethnicity, and O’Reilly claims that, in surveys done of his audience, about 70 to 75 percent identify themselves as something other than Irish or Irish-American...
Over multiple nights last semester, members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association (AAA) thumbed through the College’s yearbooks from 1974 to 2005 to tag students who looked to be of Asian or Asian American descent. Their goal? To build a list of Asian and Asian American alumni to invite for their first ever reunion, which took place Saturday night in Dudley House. Since the College does not record ethnic identity in its alumni files, the group followed this strategy which was first employed by the Black Students Association to build its own invitation list, according...
...that the show lasted just about three hours. Ghungroo, sponsored by the Harvard South Asian Association, once again revealed why it sells tickets so well every year, allowing audience members and performers of all backgrounds (indeed, a surprising number of dancers and players were of apparently non-South Asian descent) to journey to the Subcontinent, if just for a night. —Staff writer Henry M. Cowles can be reached at hmcowles@fas.harvard.edu
...didn’t want the tense issues of race in music to be left under the table. They seemed so central to what the jazz ethos was all about, how the musical language came about.” As an American woman of European descent, a musician, and an academic, she has a unique position to highlight numerous tensions in the study of jazz. Monson first came to Harvard in 1999 as a visiting professor, and then returned to a permanent position in 2001 as chair of the music department. In her critical writing and in her classes...