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...Computer For Every Child O.K., so his big brother John is director of national intelligence and delivers daily briefings to the President. But Nicholas Negroponte, 62, is trying to reach a far more challenging audience: the world's poorest children. The co-founder of M.I.T.'s Media Lab and former Wired columnist took a leave from academia last year to build a computer - a laptop so cheap that developing countries could buy them by the millions to help their kids leapfrog into the 21st century. It's an ambitious project, but the charismatic Negroponte has a persuasive pitch...
...show] evidence that either the fruit or its juice is an effective treatment for arthritis, cancer or any other disorder in humans," writes Dr. Brent Bauer, the Mayo Clinic's alternative-medicine specialist. Mangosteens contain antioxidants called xanthones that have been shown to stop certain bacteria and fungi in lab tests. Yet independent-distributor sites claim the juice helps everything from Alzheimer's disease to kidney stones. XanGo's Morton concedes that wild claims are being made. "With 600,000 distributors, some stuff gets past our compliance [measures]," he says. "Overpromising and underdelivering is a problem in any company, from...
...vested veteran and a free agent, meaning he will now be free to sign with any team, including, if Alexander recovers, the Seahawks. While at Harvard, Kacyvenski, a middle linebacker, concentrated in Environmental Science and Public Policy as a pre-med. He worked in a medical school lab during the summer before his senior season. His rise from poverty in Endicott, N.Y., where his father was a janitor and his mother died when he was in high school, is well-documented. “This is what I want to do,” Kacyvenski told The Crimson...
...Brigham and Women’s Hospital to fund research on factors that cause airport security personnel to overlook dangerous items that appear on the scanner screen. This grant is a supplement to a $460,000 grant awarded earlier this month to the hospital’s Visual Attention Lab, headed by Jeremy M. Wolfe, a professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. The hospital has been working with DHS’s Transportation Security Lab since shortly after September 11th, according to Wolfe. Research has shown that since screeners so rarely find a dangerous item, they are likely...
...themes” of combating disease, practiced by Harvard during the 1994 outbreak and refined during anthrax scares post-9/11. He describes Harvard’s new protocol in sweeping terms: “Monitoring the victims—probably with the Cambridge Health Department, lab testing to trace back to original source, caring for the sickest students, and cooperating with area hospitals. Prevention and prophylaxis [identifying and preemptively treating at-risk but not yet ill students] is always a concern.” Koh went on to cite a major difference between the health crisis efforts of today...