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...climax of an assassination attempt in the Albert Hall gets an update here) and Jackie Chan's Police Story (jumping from a building to the top of a moving bus to another building across the street). The globe-hopping itineraries of our favorite secret agent and his targets - Italy, England, Austria, Haiti, Bolivia - will remind you of the geographic restlessness on display in Syriana, Body of Lies and other war-on-terror spy capers. And like hundreds of action-film thugs, the marksmen in this film are fatally slow on the trigger...
...riques” for two pianos and eight hands on Thursday, as well as the first on-campus performance of the Blodgett Artists-in-Residence, the Chiara String Quartet, on Friday. Saturday night’s performance will feature Bruce Brubaker, head of the piano department at the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC), as well as two students who are members of the joint program between NEC and Harvard. The concerts, which will take place in Paine Hall, are open to the public. The speakers will discuss a wide range of topics throughout the weekend, concentrating on the first...
...first vegetarian society was formed in 1847 in England. Three years later, Rev. Sylvester Graham, the inventor of Graham crackers, co-founded the American Vegetarian Society. Graham was a Presbyterian minister and his followers, called Grahamites, obeyed his instructions for a virtuous life: vegetarianism, temperance, abstinence, and frequent bathing. In November 1944, a British woodworker named Donald Watson announced that because vegetarians ate dairy and eggs, he was going to create a new term called "vegan," to describe people who did not. Tuberculosis had been found in 40% of Britain's dairy cows the year before, and Watson used this...
...nation's hospitals received mediocre grades from U.S. patients in the first national survey of its kind, according to an analysis published Oct. 30 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM...
Researchers at the School of Public Health analyzed the first set of national data detailing patient satisfaction with hospital care. The findings, which were published in today’s issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, show that despite general satisfaction with patient care, hospitals across the nation are underperforming in a number of basic areas, including mitigating pain and giving clear discharge instructions...