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...estimated average age of the audience gathered in the futuristic Tempodrom arena in Berlin's western district of Kreuzberg is around 37. They're gathered for a landmark event in rock 'n' roll history: 34 years after it's release, Lou Reed will perform his legendary "Berlin" album in the city which inspired...
...Journal study is continuation of the landmark Women's Health Initiative (WHI), the largest and longest-running survey of the effects of hormone therapy in post-menopausal women. It was the WHI, back in 2002, that turned everything that doctors and patients had believed about the benefits of hormone therapy on its head. The federally funded trial revealed that estrogen and progestin after menopause did not protect women against heart disease, as doctors had previously thought, but in fact increased their risk of heart attack, stroke and breast cancer. After years of recommending the therapy for women well past menopause...
...Giving Room at selected Preferred Hotel Group properties between now and Sept. 30, and 10% of that room's revenue will be donated to a nominated charity. Beginning last year as an initiative at Houston's Hotel Derek, the Giving Room idea has now spread to hotels like the Landmark Bangkok (in aid of the Thai Red Cross), the Hotel Majestic in Barcelona (for Oxfam), and Ireland's Dromoland Castle (in support of the Barnardo's children's charity). For the full list, go to phggiftts.com...
...currently in a difficult position would be an understatement—it faces a budget deficit and must implement a new general education curriculum that has largely fizzled. Faust’s leadership is also needed to reinvent pedagogy at Harvard, as the Faculty has been unmotivated by a landmark report on Harvard’s teaching deficiencies and refuses to require teaching evaluations for all courses.The Faculty has also resisted investing in the undergraduate experience. Student life—which was reinvigorated under Summers thanks to a philosophy that responded to and spent money on student satisfaction?...
...Along with lots of other events of the spring, including new scientific reports and a landmark Supreme Court ruling, it had its effect: All of the leading Democratic presidential contenders have now endorsed our call for 80 percent cuts in carbon emissions by 2050. We’ve moved the bar a little...