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That's what scientists in the Netherlands have done. Reporting in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, they report that a simple blood test, for a hormone called anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH), could help women predict when they will enter menopause, and therefore how to set their fertility timetable. "Predicting menopause itself might not be that interesting," admits Dr. Jeroen van Disseldorp, lead author of the study and a fertility specialist at University Medical Center Utrecht. "But menopause is associated with fertility. So, predicting menopause might become more and more important in the future as women continue to delay...
...real shame,” he said.Last year, neither president-elect Faust nor then-interim President Derek C. Bok—an Army veteran—attended the commissioning ceremony, and their absence spurred criticism from some student groups and from the conservative editorial page of The Wall Street Journal. An editorial in the Journal had stated that ROTC had been “spurned by the school’s administration” and that their “honor and service deserve better from their academic tutors.”—Paras D. Bhayani, Clifford...
...corners of a puzzle? The Harvard Crossword Society gave these challenges a shot at yesterday’s “Make Your Own Crossword” in Sever Hall. Kyle A. Mahowald ’09, who has constructed crosswords for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other publications, explained the basics of the crossword craft to about half a dozen crossword enthusiasts. Mahowald said this year’s Crossword Society public event was much more “low-key” than last year’s tournament, which brought famed New York Times...
Rockefeller had withheld a $75 million gift to fund study-abroad trips for undergraduates in need of financial aid, according to a 2006 story in The Wall Street Journal by Zachary M. Seward ’07-’09, a Crimson news writer. The gift had been a crucial part of Summers’ plan to extend Harvard’s global reach, but because of his resignation, Rockefeller cancelled the large gift and gave $10 million to the Latin American studies center instead...
Rutka Laskier lived in Bedzin, Poland, with her parents, grandmother and brother. Her journal, covering four months in 1943, provides a rare glimpse of the daily life of Jews under Nazi rule. The diary was found after World War II by a friend--who kept it to herself for 60 years before allowing it to be published, initially in Polish, in 2006. A selection of entries...