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...nearly ninefold increased risk of developing cancer of the tonsils or at the base of the tongue. Of the 300 study participants, those infected with HPV were also 32 times more likely to develop this type of oral cancer than those who did not have the virus. These findings dwarf the increased risk of developing this so-called oropharyngeal cancer associated with the two major risk factors: smoking (3 times greater) or drinking (2.5 times greater). HPV infection drives cancerous growth, as it is widely understood to do in the cervix. But unlike cervical cancer, this type of oral cancer...
...Earth and five times heavier. But unlike our world, which orbits a comfortable 92.9 million miles from the flames of the sun, 581c hovers just 7 million miles from its home star. What prevents it from being incinerated like a match head is that its star is a red dwarf, only about one one-hundredth as bright as the sun. The dim light coupled with the planet's close proximity places it in what astronomers call the habitable zone: the spot at which temperatures remain comfortable and water can remain liquid. All this has led to a fair amount...
...original production and in most subsequent interpretations, the protagonist of “The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol” is a dwarf. But at 5’10”, Carolyn W. Holding ’10, who plays Lucie in the upcoming Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) production, doesn’t quite fit that mold. “She’s very tall and very lovely and beautiful, which is not what Lucie in fact is,” says producer Mollie M. Kirk ’07. Specific physical descriptions were not a priority...
...will be all of America’s voters that lose out. Having a long primary season in which smaller states tend to vote before larger states gives smaller states more of a say early on, but preserves the importance of the elections of larger states, whose vote-totals dwarf the smaller states’. In a nation that often struggles with how to practice best democracy, we hope that the preservation of the current primary system will allow for at least one arena in which politicians can practice the sort of small-town personal politics that so often...
It’s easy to forget that each day, people make decisions and face losses whose personal impacts dwarf those that most of us behind the Ivy gates of Harvard ever encounter. At 17—the age at which Alex Arredondo made the fateful decision to join the Marines—my toughest decision was whether or not to play hookey from school. I can’t imagine signing a declaration of my willingness to die for any cause—political views on Iraq aside. At 19, as I ponder my current toughest decisions?...