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Doctors have known for a decade that statin drugs can prevent or reduce the severity of cardiovascular disease by lowering blood levels of LDL. But how low is low enough? A landmark study of more than 4,000 heart patients compared a standard LDL-lowering regimen (40 mg of Pravachol) with an intensive regimen (80 mg of Lipitor) and found that even though both reduced LDL levels to below the recommended benchmark of 100 mg/dL, the patients on the higher dose were 16% less likely than those on the lower dose to get worse or die. The bottom line: what...
...plans—which were first presented to the neighborhood in September and have since been tweaked in response to residents’ concerns—represent the results of a landmark compromise reached between Harvard and the City Council in October 2003. The agreement allows arvard to build taller buildings than the Riverside residents had wanted, in return for providing a public park and about 36 units of affordable housing for city residents...
...RELEASED. United Nations workers ANGELITO NAYAN, 34, of the Philippines, ANNETTE FLANIGAN, 43, of Northern Ireland, and SHQIPE HEBIBI, 36, of Kosovo; after being kidnapped by Habib Noorzad, a splinter faction of the Taliban; in Kabul. The three had helped organize Afghanistan's landmark Oct. 9 election and were abducted at gunpoint on Oct. 28. The captors said the government had agreed to release 24 Taliban prisoners in exchange for the hostages, a claim that was denied by Afghan Interior Minister Ahmed Ali Jalali...
...last wednesday of September, Russia's second largest oil company, Lukoil, hoisted the Stars and Stripes up a flagpole outside its Moscow headquarters to celebrate a landmark deal: with a $2 billion bid, the U.S. firm ConocoPhillips had just won an auction for the Russian government's 7.6% stake in the firm. The two companies promptly announced a strategic alliance to develop oil reserves in the Russian Arctic and potentially work together in Iraq. For Jim Mulva, Conoco's president and chief executive, the deal amounted to a coup, giving Conoco access to 8 billion bbl. of proven oil reserves...
...reasons why the newly freed up space in Hilles Library will never fulfill that purpose. A “Ponte Vecchio”-style student center, as mentioned in last spring’s report, would meet that need exceptionally well and provide the new campus with the architectural landmark it needs to announce the College’s reinvention to the world. Short of that visionary idea, the College should attempt to situate the student center as the gateway to Allston’s undergraduate presence—a place students pass by daily en route from one side...