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...diners at this Jan. 7 meal were a group of around 14 Adams residents, including students who did not head home for the January term and were only able to enjoy a home-cooked meal thanks to Sifuentes. For the three-course meal, he charged students $5—less than the cost of a burrito in the Square...
...effort to promote literacy at international schools in poor municipalities, the trio—along with four other GSE students and a staff member—traveled to Caluco, El Salvador from Jan. 4 to Jan. 13 of January term. The group brought along 1,300 books to start three libraries, teaching parents and teachers in the area how to utilize these new resources both in the classroom and at home...
Focusing on a single, well-defined sample group that, in the case of the migraine study, was descended from 22 related couples, helped clarify what proportion of risk was attributable to heredity rather than environment. "What's fabulous about this study is that they were able to isolate a population so that you have a more uniform environment," notes Dr. Andrew Ahn, a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) who authored an independent editorial on the Dutch study...
...Army Secretary Togo West and the Navy's onetime top admiral, Vernon Clark, told reporters last week that they didn't drill down into Hasan's motives. "Our concern is with actions and effects, not necessarily with motivations," West said. Added Clark: "We certainly do not cite a particular group." Part of their reticence, they said, was to avoid running afoul of the criminal probe of Hasan that is now under way. Both are declining interview requests before their congressional testimony, a Pentagon spokesman said. (Read TIME's cover story on the Fort Hood massacre...
...illegal donations from a large construction company that allegedly wanted to win contracts in areas where Ozawa has political influence. Ozawa bowed to cries for his resignation from within the party just months before August's Lower House elections. That move, however, did not satisfy the prosecutors, an influential group of Japanese officials with the power to investigate any criminal offense. Takao Toshikawa, editor of political newsletter Tokyo Insideline, says that Ozawa and his mentors have been fighting various battles with the office since the late 1970s. "At this moment, the Prosecutors Office and Ozawa are fighting the final...