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...study, titled “Antiactin Targeted Immunoliposomes Ameliorate Tissue Plasminogen Activator-Induced Hemorrhage After Focal Embolic Stroke,” researchers from the Harvard Medical School (HMS) outline a method that will potentially increase the success of ischemic stroke treatment...
...note that writing is one of the focal points of the college experience, and that those who struggle with prose have a much harder time adapting to the challenges of college. What can the average Harvard student do to rectify such a situation...
...brother's bicycle, he was happily unaware of the carnage downtown. It was Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963. At 10:22 that morning, four black girls had been killed by a dynamite bomb set by the Ku Klux Klan at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. The church was a focal point of Birmingham's civil rights turmoil that year, but that unrest hadn't touched Virgil and his coal-mining family, who lived in a modest, all-black suburb and rarely even saw white people. All Virgil had on his mind that day was the money he and his brothers were...
...Harvard is going anywhere this season, the squad needs to prove it can win games against ranked opponents. So, as the women say, this weekend is a focal point...
...over and over again the wooded hilltops outside Oxford known as the Wittenham Clumps - the Nashes had moved here to avoid bombs. He uses pulsatingly vivid colors, reflecting the heat and white nights of summer, in paintings like Landscape of the Summer Solstice (1943). Under the crouching trees, the focal point is a menacing dandelion. The implicit dread is more than merely romantic - imagine a soundtrack of German bombers. Dogged for years by severe asthma, Nash died in 1946 of pneumonia, aged 57. The last painting in the show is Farewell (1944), a moment of calm after the bombing raids...