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...every eight women in the U.S. will develop breast cancer in her lifetime--a statistic that includes my mother. Her cancer was diagnosed more than 10 years ago, and like more and more breast-cancer survivors these days, she's doing just fine. In fact, survival rates have never been higher, thanks to regular mammograms and improved treatments, according to a study released last week in the New England Journal of Medicine in conjunction with breast-cancer awareness month. Nearly 98% of women with early-stage breast cancer today will survive at least five years. Most will live long, full...
...want to steer away from work-related projects, as long as the assignment engages them at a high level. Innovative nonprofits are designing projects accordingly. The Medicare Rights Center in New York State set up a program called Seniors Out Speaking to attract recent retirees who would like to develop a useful new field of expertise. The center gives the retirees intense training in the complex array of available Medicare plans, after which they can choose to give monthly hour-long presentations at various community venues. Or they can sign up for "Medicare Minute," returning regularly to the same senior...
...Agriculture and Business at HBS, who was a student in WAC and later a colleague of Raymond’s. “Although we all resented it at the time, in retrospect, it was one of the best courses we all took.” Goldberg described the development of the program under Raymond’s leadership. “Tom Raymond headed up that course from its inception for many, many decades,” he said. “He not only had to develop a program but also the personnel...
...others.” CPL selected a group of 35 judges, themselves leaders in both the private and public domain, to winnow down an original list of 300 nominees. One of the judges, Alan A. Khazei ’83, said they were looking for people who helped develop other leaders and made unique contributions in their fields. “You don’t have to be a household name to be an outstanding leader,” Khazei said. Harvard’s Presley Professor of Social Medicine Paul E. Farmer and Associate Clinical Professor of Social...
...secrets!” Such suspense! Wouldn’t you like to know where the story is really heading? Too bad. Campbell doesn’t care much about cogency; he’s too busy jumping hyperactively from plotline to plotline. The movie grudgingly develops a storyline in its second half. Government agents force Elena to divorce Zorro and to seduce Archduke Wilhelm (Michel Bos), a member of a European guild plotting to destroy the United States. Zorro must stop the dastardly scheme: in come the sabers and muskets! However, these badly-choreographed, ten-on-one battles...