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Merck/Schering-Plough's one-minute ad for the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin is a standard example: it repeats the drug's benefits over and over, but squeezes in risk information only once and just after the halfway mark. You won't see it on TV anymore - the drug maker pulled the ad in January after releasing results of a two-year trial that showed Vytorin was no better than a cheaper generic statin drug at preventing heart disease - but you can watch our dissection of it below...
...arrest is only one event in a disturbing trend toward imprisoning journalists, human rights advocates, academics and others under India’s nebulous anti-terrorism laws. The most recent arrestee was Ajay T.G., also a leading member of PUCL-Chhattisgarh, a human rights activist and film-maker, on May 4, 2008. Individuals like Dr. Sen have a global network of support, including Noam Chomsky, Amartya Sen and Paul Farmer, and yet his incarceration continues. Global demonstrations on May 13 and 14, including one in Harvard Square, will not only mark one year of Dr. Sen’s imprisonment...
...these countries. “Most students that go on [the summer internship programs] are on some form of aid,” says Katie G. Ferrari ’05, the Student Services Coodinator at DRCLAS. “It’s really not a money-maker for us at all, it’s really about students having an experience down there.”Ferrari also emphasized Harvard’s distinct advantages in aiding study abroad, including DRCLAS’s extensive contact and alumni network throughout Latin America.FROM THE LAB TO THE DANCE CLUBKatherine...
...Vale, feeling sympathetic, invites them to stay. The interactions between Vale and his guests possess both the awkwardness and the warmth that such a situation would invite. As a result, the middle part of the film is the most nuanced and engrossing portion. Though Zainab—a jewelry-maker from Senegal—seems initially cautious and afraid of Vale, Syrian drummer Tarek befriends him quickly and teaches him to play the djembe, an African hand drum. Tarek and his drums fill the void in Vale’s life in a way that his painful piano lessons never...
...band debuted their own rod—over 15 feet long—at their homecoming game last October. And in 1972, a dedicated group of Harvard students set a record for the longest monopoly game, playing for 50 hours in a Currier House elevator. According to the maker of Monopoly, the current record is 1680 hours. FM thinks it’s only a matter of time before Harvard students organize the largest gathering of people dressed like Conrad’s rival, Heidi Montag, but Cronin isn’t sure that there will be enough interest...