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...Association announced that since 1999, deaths from coronary heart disease fell a remarkable 25.8%. There are a lot of reasons for that happy development, but the leading ones are better drugs and technology, closer adherence to evidence-based practice guidelines and the simple precaution of getting people in cardiac distress to the hospital fast...
Students soon learn that due to severe financial distress, HMC was obliged during the summer to sell a controlling stake in the university to celebrated Swedish home products retailer IKEA. Suddenly, that sleek pastel chair you’re sitting in begins to make a lot more sense. But hey, at least you can finally buy that Harvard Yard (TM) armoire to house your Harvard Yard (TM) chinos.--James M. Wilsterman ’10Editorial chair As winter approaches, Harvard will realize that it has pitted hundreds of its students against each other by limiting who is eligible...
...hijacking emerged, the tale got murkier, and Moscow's explanation does little to clear things up. Why, with so many other ships carrying much more valuable cargo, would the hijackers target the Arctic Sea and its small load of timber? Why didn't the ship send out a distress signal? Why did Israeli President Shimon Peres pay a surprise visit to Russia a day after the ship was rescued? Why did Russia wait so long to send its navy to find the ship? And what did the brother of one of the alleged hijackers, Dmitri Bartenev, mean when he told...
...more of a considered decision to join a theological and intellectual tradition. "Conservatives are especially receptive to the promise of there being some capital-T truth that one can embed one's convictions in," says Damon Linker, a former editor of the Catholic journal First Things. (Read "Republicans in Distress: Is the Party Over...
...mistaking Rubio for an intern, sent him to make copies. But he's also tenacious and ambitious, and with Bush's support, he rose to the speaker's chair in 2007; the ceremony was broadcast live in Cuba on Radio Marti. (Read TIME's cover story on Republicans in distress...