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William Wright-Swadel, the director of Harvard's Office of Career Service (OCS), will leave his post as chief adviser to Harvard's undergraduate job-seekers, taking his decades of advising experience to Duke University this fall, Duke announced earlier this month...
...vary from day to day or even during a single day, depending on what a person is experiencing. "If somebody comes in and tells me they rushed in because they were late, and their blood pressure is high, I give them a pass," says Dr. Eric Peterson at Duke University. Individual readings taken a few months apart can also be difficult to interpret, he says. But measurements that patients take at home, several times a week, offer a more accurate picture of where their blood pressure stands...
...fast as humans, but in a typical rat, this 5 g/kg dose on an empty stomach still results in a monumentally high blood-alcohol concentration. "It's difficult to compare to humans, but it's about a case of beer," says Aaron White, an alcohol researcher at the Duke University Medical Center--that's a case of beer ingested all at once...
...burgers cost up to $35 a pop and Duke's works hard to justify this level of charging, seating customers in plush surroundings (complete with chandeliers) and laying out Molton Brown hand soap in the restrooms. But in the end, the food manages to do the job alone. Dang's burger interpretations are very creative, and the quality of the ingredients and preparation have more in common with SoHo's better bistros than its fast food joints. The braised U.S. short-rib and truffle burger ($35) comes plated in an elegant open-faced tower of foie gras, green beans...
...Duke's gives you eight burgers to choose from, including the classic cheddar and smoked bacon ($20). It also offers a selection of salad and "fry" sides, like parmesan-and-corn fritters. With the exception of a mediocre spiked milkshake, the fare is excellent. If Dang ever decided to try his hand at cooking something besides burgers, the results promise to be just as enticing...