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Even with the Medical Hardship Waiver, Ivy League rules restricting students to eight semesters, unless there is an academic need for a ninth, would likely limit Cusworth to remaining on campus—and thus competing—for just one semester of the 2006-2007 school year...
...William Strauss ’69, one of seven members of the Class of 1969 who sent a letter to University President Lawrence H. Summers in November protesting last year’s compensation numbers. “Now it’s 35? What’s the limit? If I were these people, I would give back 30 percent of what Harvard gives me as a gesture...
...findings, said he believed that the studies differed because of varying definitions of what it means to be overweight. For the WHS study, a person was labeled overweight if her Body Mass Index (BMI), a measure of total body fat, was above 25—the lower limit of the overweight category as defined by the National Institutes of Health...
...simply too much interaction between humans and civets for this virus not to make the leap. But it could take months to get a paper peer-reviewed and published so it would impact public health by encouraging the Guangdong government to curtail the civet population--or at least limit contact between humans and the animal. In that time, the disease could again gain a foothold among humans. But as long as there were no new cases then perhaps Yi had time to fast-track his paper and get it published in a few weeks. Then his wife called from work...
Sweet news: besides tasting great, chocolate can do you some good. It's rich in flavonoids, which can raise levels of good cholesterol, and antioxidants, which limit cell damage. Heating chocolate seems to release antioxidants, so go for the hot cocoa. Not all chocolate is created equal, however. Dark chocolate is more potent than its paler cousin in raising antioxidant levels, possibly because the milk in milk chocolate binds to antioxidants. In addition, German research comparing dark and white chocolate found that the dark stuff can lower blood pressure...