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...first do no harm,” is an oft-repeated maxim of western medicine. But a paper by a Harvard Medical School (HMS) researcher presents new support for the possibility that breast cancer surgeons may be unintentionally doing just that. The paper, published in the International Journal of Surgery, hypothesizes that African-American women are more likely to die of breast cancer because they are more likely to undergo surgery at a young age to remove cancerous tumors. That surgery may in fact exacerbate the cancer by unleashing agents into the body, inflaming previously dormant tumors elsewhere...
...voluminous writer—known for 5,000-word days—kept a journal his sophomore year, which he summed up with five words: “Weather, Work, Smoking, Liquor and Love.” He joined fellow literary types as a member of the Signet Society, praising the Dunster Street club for serving “the best luncheon in Cambridge...
...perfect example of the synthesis of academia and oenophilia is Robert N. Stavins, Pratt professor of business and government. Last year he co-founded of the “Journal of Wine Economics.” Around the same time, he threw a “Sideways” party, featuring painstakingly recreated food and wine combinations from the movie that made pinot noir—a “peculiar” grape in his words—popular...
...copies of his “Journal of Wine Economics” lie on a desk in his darkened office, a nod to what he calls his “little obsession...
...Stavins jokingly refers to the “Journal of Wine Economics” as “the definition of tenure.” He is now working on the third issue...