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Committee member Joseph G. Grassi emphasized that current security practices might not be as effective as teachers and administrators think they...
...cooperative weather weekend helped fuel the dominating performance.“It was fairly warm and sunny,” Robb said. “On Sunday we had to wait an hour or two for the winds, but it filled in nicely.”JOSEPH DUPLIN TROPHY The No. 8 women also stayed close to home over the weekend, traveling to Tufts for the 28th Duplin Trophy. The Crimson took fourth-place overall in the nine-team field, with host-Tufts taking top honors. A single division saw each team race an A and B boat, with Harvard?...
...psychosocial metrics for teens since the 1980s. I'm not exactly sure why teen life is getting better, but I actually think teens are more empowered than ever-through social-networking websites, through the cheap availability of cell phones, and through their busier-than-ever schedules, which-as Joseph Mahoney of Yale has shown here-tend to be surprisingly beneficial for most teens. The bottom line is, Our kids are fine...
...that enable doctors to do a better job of matching the treatment to the tumor. Oncotype Dx, introduced in 2004, looks at 21 genes in biopsied tissue to determine whether or not chemotherapy will be helpful for early breast cancer patients with recent diagnoses. At Duke University, molecular geneticist Joseph Nevins is testing a similar gene-based test for lung cancer. Researchers are aiming for tools that will tell them not only whether chemo is needed but also which specific drugs to use. Such a screen already exists for Herceptin, and many others are in development. Meantime...
When Nathan M. Pusey ’28 ascended to the Harvard presidency in 1953, Joseph McCarthy was beginning his second term as the junior senator from Wisconsin. Pusey was a respected academic from Lawrence College; McCarthy, an opportunistic demagogue spreading jingoism across postwar America. The two men had little to do with each other, and had Pusey been elected the head of a less influential institution, McCarthy may never have heard his name. But Pusey, as president of Harvard, quickly realized he had tremendous influence over the nation’s academic discourse. He chose to challenge creeping McCarthyism...