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Rachel's first breathless call was to her grandparents. "Guess what, I have my own cell phone," exclaimed the cutting-edge fourth-grader through her shiny, tricked-out handset. The perplexed, interstate scowls at other end of the line were easy to envision. "Why do you need that?" retorted her disapproving elders virtually in unison. My nine-year-old didn't have an immediate answer, but instinctively and ineffably, she knew she had arrived...
...drug leads to a statistically significant improvement in, say, cholesterol levels doesn't guarantee that the desired effect--a healthier heart and a longer life--will follow. Often your doctor is left to make prescription decisions based at least in part on faith, bias or even an educated guess. That ought to be enough to spook even the least jumpy patient, but the fact is, recognizing just what a roll of the dice medicine can be may be a good thing...
...Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard. “He’s a totally brilliant man. The number one medical historian in the world,” said Preston. Together, Faust and Rosenberg form quite a power couple—but you would never guess it from their low-key demeanors. “When you sit and talk to them, power is the furthest thing from your mind.” Preston says...
...concept of women’s genitals as ‘dirty.’” If the FemSex gang is implying that stigmatization of menstruation exists at Harvard—that female undergraduates are shunned for five days or so each month—then I guess I’ve missed the red tents inside the Yard. Alternatively, if FemSex facilitators are suggesting we should talk more openly about menstruation, that seems equally ridiculous—we don’t talk about our bowel movements, and this matter is not so different. The stigmas FemSex...
...guess is that this is unprecedented in the history of Harvard University,” said Rakoff. “I was an undergraduate in the 1960s, and I didn’t see anything like this either...