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...avoid an intra-conference matchup between the Crimson and third-ranked Dartmouth.“I am on the [NCAA selection] committee, so I sort of anticipated they were going to do that,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “Though the other determining factor, more importantly, is that they really don’t like to fly in more than two teams for Regionals.”As the bracket stands, the Crimson will fly to Madison to play the Badgers while Minnesota-Duluth will travel to Erie, Pa. to square off against...
Shawn L. Abbott, Stanford director of admission, admits that “in a very subtle way” differences in weather can influence a student’s happiness, but doesn’t find it to be a deciding factor...
...increased likelihood of relapse among breast cancer patients in the two years after a tumor is surgically removed. In a 2005 paper, Retsky and his fellow researchers first proposed that surgery itself might be a cause of the relapse. In that paper, Retsky found that age was the decisive factor: pre-menopausal women were significantly more likely to experience relapses after surgery than post-menopausal women were. His new paper applies this theory to another apparent trend—the high mortality rates among African-American women afflicted with breast cancer. African-American women, Retsky found, tend to get breast...
...With this kind of observational study, you can’t talk about definite causation, and while it’s still possible that there’s a factor that we haven’t accounted for... its hard to argue that it’s another factor,” he said...
Hypertension is a risk factor for a number of different conditions, such as heart attack or stroke, according to Benedict J. DiRusso, the director of Pharmacy Services for University Health Services...