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...conservative - who converted from Hinduism to Catholicism as a teenager - has traveled often to northern Louisiana, hitting up churches and pressing the flesh. The strategy appears to have worked, as Jindal handily won the areas he lost to Blanco four years ago and that heavily supported white supremacist David Duke's bid for the governorship in 1991. Perhaps realizing the difficulties of running to lead a state that has by and large elected white males to higher office, Jindal worked to minimize the significance of his ethnicity on the trail, using variations on the theme of, "the only colors that...
...Tagliaferri and Cohen left Buck to establish Bionovo, where they began Phase II trials of BZL101 in April 2006, expanding their studies to 10 hospitals and breast cancer centers, including the University of Chicago Medical Center, Duke University Medical Center and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Bionovo expects the second phase of trials to conclude by early...
...Even after you control for sickness and all sorts of things, patients who receive transfusions still have more heart attacks. It makes no sense," says Dr. Jonathan Stamler, a professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center. But Stamler and his colleague Dr. Timothy McMahon may at last have an explanation. In studies reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they sampled pints of donated blood from banks and healthy volunteers, subjected them to 26 different analyses and found dramatic deficiencies in levels of nitric oxide (NO). A workhorse component of normal blood, NO is responsible for helping...
...enticing,” Amaker explains. “But we offer something that we think is even more exciting and enticing—a Harvard education.”This is a different gig for Amaker, whose résumé includes an assistant coaching position at Duke University, as well as head coaching jobs at Seton Hall and, most recently, the University of Michigan, where he coached for six seasons before being fired in March. “It’s our first summer to get indoctrinated into a different formula and format of recruiting...
...exclamation point approach to bolster his point. “We believe that we can do some truly special things here at Harvard Basketball, but we need you.”This is the same Tommy Amaker, who was National Defensive Player of the Year his senior year at Duke; who led Seton Hall, just seven years ago, to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament; who cleaned up a tarnished Michigan program, winning a NIT Championship in the process; who generated the second-ranked recruiting class in the nation in 2000 while with the Pirates.And he needs the fans...