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...Monday, FAS announced that Brett C. Sweet, the chief financial officer at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, will take over for Scalise in a modified role as dean for administration and Finance on Sept. 2. Scalise will return to his position as director of athletics. Sweet graduated from Harvard Business School...
...Carnegie type of philanthropic work that Gates is trying to accomplish - not only with his resources but also with the resources of any major corporation. Corporations that adopt his ideas might find a win-win situation for everyone involved. I would support businesses that adopt this philosophy. Jeff Heinz, HOUSTON...
...bian, who regularly traveled in a chartered 747, Ma will fly on a commercial airline to the U.S. on his way to attend presidential inaugurations in Paraguay and the Dominican Republic. And unlike Chen, whose 2001 trip to Latin America included controversial transit stops in New York City and Houston, Ma will try to avoid antagonizing Beijing by slipping through the U.S. as quietly as possible, changing planes on the west coast and not attending public events. "We are keeping this simple and low-key," says Henry Chen, a spokesman for Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
...team for the rest of the tournament. The Americans shut down China's guards - Bryant kept his vow to play D, applying choking pressure on Chinese point guards. The U.S. also caught a break; Yao Ming wasn't at full strength. Coming off a foot injury that ended his Houston Rockets season, Yao was slow and tired, often lingering behind on the fast breaks, doubling over to catch his breath. Though he sank a three-pointer for the first bucket of the game, sending the crowd into ecstasy, he finished with 13 points on an ugly 3-10 shooting night...
...biopsies in women contained parabens, commonly used preservatives that can mimic the hormone estrogen. Another study found that among women with breast cancer, those who shaved their underarms frequently, then applied antiperspirant or deodorant, tended to develop the cancer at an earlier age. But, says Dr. Therese Bevers of Houston's MD Anderson Cancer Center, "all these studies are fraught with biases, so you have to interpret them cautiously. There is not enough evidence to even lay out cautions at this point." Still, neither Unilever nor P&G uses parabens in its antiperspirants any longer. That's good news...