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...were lower-middle-class oiks," Idle says of himself and most of the other Pythons, noting that only Cleese and Palin had gone to posh public (private) schools. Yet however scraped his circumstances or mean his surroundings, young Eric was not a pouter; he always looked on the bright side of life. And he developed an early facility with language. "I think I was always interested in words because in such a sterile environment you have to create your own entertainment, and explore your own brain.... I was more well read than most teenagers because at boarding school there...
...phone book; it's only a list. We want to know what those genes do. So we can now go to the mouse atlas, which gives us the gene [activity] pattern in a normal mouse brain. Is this gene expressed in normally? Is it expressed at a higher or lower level in a tumor? We use the atlas every day, to figure out which genes are important to the biology of the tumor, and which are bystanders...
...today's children can look forward to seeing a big chunk of their future earnings taxed to support their elders. Even for countries with liberal immigration policies, maintaining current population levels requires a birthrate of around 2.1 children per woman. Yet in 2004, Spain recorded a birthrate of 1.32, lower even than Germany's 1.37 and Italy's 1.33. Even France, the second-most fertile European country after Ireland thanks to the noble efforts of Claire Denis and her compatriots, failed to hit replacement levels, with a birthrate...
...applied sciences, Harvard puts a greater emphasis on the life sciences, which are not as easily transferable into startup companies, Halvorsen said. The report noted that academics are “conflicted by the greater focus on commercialization, feeling that it might impede research in areas with a lower probability of direct-market applicability but which could nevertheless lead to advances in fundamental scientific knowledge.” Such conflict has traditionally been the dominant culture at Harvard, according to McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering David A. Edwards. “Technology transfer had relatively little value...
...cancer in need of immediate treatment can take actions to alleviate the increased risks associated with the therapy. “For men who do require this treatment, physicians may want to talk with their patients about strategies, such as exercise or weight loss, which may help to lower risk of diabetes and heart disease,” said study co-author Matthew Smith, a Harvard Medical School associate professor, in the release. Researchers also found that another treatment for prostate cancer, surgical removal of testicles, exhibited an increased risk of diabetes but no noticeable increase in the risk...