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Begley moved from Europe to Brooklyn, where he attended Erasmus Hall High School. Despite his relative inexperience with English, he won a borough-wide short-story competition. He was admitted to Harvard at age 16, and without having visited the campus, accepted the offer...
...study, led by Robert McLean at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged in Massachusetts, found that men with the highest homocysteine levels were four times as likely to develop hip fractures as men with the lowest levels. The second study, from researchers at Erasmus University in the Netherlands, found that men and women with the highest levels of homocysteine had twice the risk of suffering a fracture compared with those with the lowest levels...
...Asia, there is no program in place to systematically sample migratory birds to determine which viruses they carry. In Europe, virologist Albert Osterhaus of Erasmus University in the Netherlands has launched a survey in which fecal samples are submitted from around the continent for testing. "We've found the proteins that indicate the presence of various avian influenzas," says Osterhaus. The prevalence of viruses in migratory birds may have been responsible for an avian-flu outbreak in the Netherlands last year that infected 80 people, killing one. The virus responsible, an H7, which was less deadly than the H5 strain...
Several years later, after returning from a year at Oxford on a Fulbright scholarship, she came to Harvard to pursue a doctorate degree in history. She met her husband there—Charles M. Gray ’49 was in her seminar on the early Latin works of Erasmus...
...misgivings about the new U.S. legislation. "We must place on record the firm view in support of the principle that regulation of audit and corporate governance is a matter for individual countries," the Confederation of British Industry wrote to the sec. Jaap Winter, a law professor at Rotterdam's Erasmus University who chairs a group of experts advising the European Commission on company law, says conflict should be avoidable. He contends that the U.S. is in some ways catching up with European practice with the new legislation. One example is the stipulation that a board's audit committee - not management...