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Brandon M. Terry ’05 wants to fill the gaps he sees in minority professional networks—and he has gone online to do it. Terry recently co-founded GetConnects, a company that works to link minority students at top universities with businesses that do not have strong minority recruitment programs or an already strong presence at on-campus job fairs. According to Terry, registration with the GetConnects’ online database is free for students, but businesses are asked to pay for access. Terry said his company will help to fill in holes in minority professional...
...percent less likely to develop cardiovascular disease. “The reduction in cardiovascular disease was larger than we expected,” said Cook, who is affiliated with the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She added that although excessive sodium intake has been linked with hypertension and high blood pressure, this is the first study to comprehensively trace the long-term link between dietary sodium levels and cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the U.S. The mortality rate was also slightly lower in the group that reduced sodium intake, although not statistically significant...
...Widener Library, as tens of thousands of scanned books become electronically available through Harvard’s library catalog in the next few weeks. Eventually, all of the University’s library books digitized as part of the Google Books Library Project will be made directly accessible through links in the online HOLLIS system. For instance, a student looking for the 1850 book “Antitrinitarian Biography” by Robert Wallace, a three-volume tome on Unitarianism, can get to it simply by clicking the “Internet Link” in its HOLLIS record rather...
...Avis). Its share price rose almost 2,000% in four years, and Silverman's net worth rocketed toward $1 billion. He was hailed as a genius. Then, in 1997, he merged HFS with direct-marketer CUC to form Cendant. CUC was an e-commerce pioneer, giving Silverman a tangential link to the Internet bubble. Under CEO Walter Forbes, now awaiting jail, CUC was also a pioneer at fabricating earnings, Silverman later discovered. This was the first of the big end-of-the-century accounting scandals, and though Silverman and Cendant survived it, the disaster cost him both his genius certification...
...display in the pub. Both expressed their pleasure at the venue’s attempts to foster historical allusions. “It’s making the connection about where this place came from,” Shepperd said. “It’s maintaining the link, which is great.” “The Brits have not always been in good favor in Boston,” added Stanton. “But it’s nice to remember the nice bits as well.” —Staff writer Christian...