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...away reaches such a hazardous level that bones become fragile. They lose their usual spongelike appearance and are more like porous lace. While both men and women experience bone loss, women are much more susceptible to osteoporosis. Bone deteriorates faster after menopause, probably in part because of a sharp drop in levels of the hormone estrogen...
...existence in California. The report also sets aside family funds for faculty and students engaged in research-related travel and increases scholarships and spots at Harvard-affiliated daycare centers.But professors say that such measures are still largely symbolic.“You know this is kind of a drop in the bucket,” says Mansbridge of the childcare initiative. “You could spend a lot of money trying to compensate parents for the time and money they spend raising children, so as to begin to level the playing field between them and the childless. This isn?...
...delinquent students the opportunity to sneak by with a B-plus would be much more challenging to coordinate. Keystroke, click, send—the Harvard soundtrack.But what a liberating relief to be unreachable for a while. Friends often joke about the strange sensation that overtakes them when they suddenly drop their cell phone in the river or leave it stranded in a bar bathroom; just like that, they become a ghost for a day before reconnecting at T-Mobile. For those few pre-millennium hours, the world is a little less imposing. For a second, we are relieved...
...that his device consists of several hundred silicon wires, each measuring only around 10 nanometers in diameter, each containing a receptor for a specific protein—for instance, a cancer marker.The new detector allows for real-time monitoring of blood, saliva, and urine using as little as one drop, whereas current detection involves sending several milliliter samples to a lab and waiting several days for results, Lieber says.Lieber says he believes the device is ready for production and is waiting for the stars to align.“It will depend on getting the right group of people together...
...then as an actual one. My introduction to the shop came in 1956. The shop, with its worn couch, its even more battered armchair, its dark-grained bookshelves, and a table piled high with books, was the perfect fantasy bookshop. Friends, acquaintances, whatever literary light was in town would drop by to visit the shop and to meet the owner Gordon Cairnie. He was purported to have hosted the first painting exhibition of e.e. cummings, to have stocked copies of the first printing of Ulysses smuggled in under the coats of various customers and, much later, to stock copies...