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...charter school in Washington. "My military experience," says Gobourne, "taught me to think on my feet." The New York City-based NLNS is still evolving, but early results are encouraging, with test scores up at schools run by NLNS grads. The peripatetic CEO couldn't be more inspired to expand the mission. Schnur and his team visited more than 200 schools this year, and in nearly every one, their first stop was the principal's office. --By Wendy Cole
...arteries, which are a type of muscle, even pulse to help keep blood moving along. But the fibers that make up the scaffolding of the vessel walls can take only so much flexing. As we age, the rubbery tissue slowly gets replaced with stiffer collagen. The vessels don't expand as well anymore, but the blood keeps rushing through at the same rate, increasing the pressure. The higher the pressure climbs, the more punishment the walls take, and the more collagen is added. "The vessel wall becomes almost like concrete," says Dr. Michael Weber, a past president of the American...
...pragmatic conservatives will probably try to keep the nuclear dialogue alive. They say they would like to expand Iran's limited cooperation with the U.S. on issues like Iraq and Afghanistan. But that posture did not afford much political cover for Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi at last week's regional summit on Iraq's future. At the official dinner, Egyptian hosts seated him next to Colin Powell. But Iran's government, miffed at the Secretary of State's allegation that Iran was adapting missiles for nuclear warheads, rejected any substantive discussion during the rare encounter...
Josef Fischer, head of the surgery department at BIDMC and Mallinckrodt Professor of Surgery at HMS, has led the effort to expand. Among other initiatives, Fischer recruited Daniel B. Jones from University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, who brought his Dallas-based team with him to Boston to develop a new minimally invasive surgery program...
...added that Harvard is not obligated to expand on the pilot program...