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...addition of Li to Harvard's small EAS staff, combined with the recently announced tenure of Wilt L. Idema, a professor at the Netherlands' University of Leiden, means the department can expand the content and format of its courses, Bol said...
Jane Luu was an associate professor in the astronomy department until she received a job offer from the University of Leiden in Ireland, where she is now tenured...
...GENE FOR MIGRAINES Migraines, more than any other type of headache, seem to run in families. Neurologists from Leiden University in the Netherlands have for the first time isolated a gene that is linked to some types of migraines. The team, led by Dr. Michel Ferrari, studied 60 subjects from five families with a history of migraines. Inheriting one copy of the defective gene seems to hamper the ability of cells to use calcium molecules to communicate with one another. Ferrari stresses, however, that genetics is not destiny: "Certain patients will have a genetic predisposition but will develop migraine only...
...life-prolonging devices that could reduce a dying person to little more than a houseplant. His quotation of the oath with respect to euthanasia should be compared to a doctor's admonition to use the time-honored method of bloodsucking by leeches to cure high blood pressure. JOHAN ROORYCK Leiden, the Netherlands Via E-mail...
...scientists who found galaxy 4C41.17 -- the other discoverer is George Miley of Leiden University in the Netherlands -- say they are confident of its existence and distance. But they are, nonetheless, circumspect about the implications of their findings. "If every galaxy in our universe was formed at this time," says Chambers, "there are some serious problems with current theory." But, he adds judiciously, 4C41.17 has some peculiarities that cannot be ignored: it is more lumpy, elongated and turbulent than most other galaxies. Chambers speculates that "it may also be atypical in its time of formation, which would make current theory hold...