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...founder of Teach For America (TFA), one of the largest single employers of Harvard students at graduation, visited the campus yesterday to encourage seniors to spend their next two years teaching in low-income communities...
...Bionovo, the drug discovery and development company in Emeryville, Calif., that's behind BZL101, there's hope too. The trial is the first FDA-validated clinical study of a potential cancer drug derived from a Chinese medicinal herb, says Dr. Mary Tagliaferri, a co-founder of the company, former practicing acupuncturist and a breast-cancer survivor. "Sixty-two percent of chemotherapy drugs come from natural products, and plants have been the basis of almost every new class of medication," she says. "It makes sense that these plants can act as anticancer agents...
Tagliaferri's interest in Ban Zhi Lian, which has traditionally been used to treat swellings, sores and fever, was sparked in 1996 by a fellow acupuncturist, Isaac Cohen, who would later become a co-founder of Bionovo. At that time, Cohen had been treating, for a decade, women who were battling breast cancer with conventional medicines and had run out of treatment options. "In their exhaustion and desperation, they were trying to find an alternative treatment that was not so harsh," says Cohen, who often prescribed herbs to be prepared as teas to ease the side effects of chemo...
...Yunus, founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, stressed the role of business as a way to do good for others...
...unaccustomed to sunlight.” Thanks to “Freeze,” Harvard’s take on women’s glossies like “Marie Claire” and “Seventeen,” and its president and founder, Thea L. Sebastian ’08, that list of attributes now includes “fabulous.” The magazine first broke ground in 2005, and The Crimson recently sat down with Sebastian, a government concentrator in Leverett House, to discuss the humble beginning and the ambitious future of Harvard?...