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...medical science had a trophy cabinet, the shelf for achievement in motor neurone disease would be almost bare. Lack of time hasn't been the problem. It was in 1869 that a French neurologist, Jean-Martin Charcot, suggested grouping several conditions under one name - what we now call MND. Then things went quiet for 120 years. "Traditionally, it was a case of doctors saying to patients, in effect: 'You've got motor neurone disease - go home and write your will,'" says Sydney neurologist Matthew Kiernan. "The specialist didn't like looking after these patients because he knew he had nothing...
...gender equality when it comes to child-bearing.STICKER PRICEWhile schools including Princeton and Yale subsidize half of the tuition costs for their faculty members’ children—at these schools or another undergraduate institution—Harvard offers no tuition discounts to professors’ progeny.According to Lisa Martin, chair of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Standing Committee on Women, Harvard’s “tuition assistance” consists of interest free loans to help with education at any institution.Princeton pays half tuition at any undergraduate institution for the children of faculty who have...
...varsity eight, the team will also hope to avoid being over-stroked. On Saturday, the varsity squad could only stroke at a rate of 33 while Yale attained a rate of 35. “We executed our race but we were over-stroked,” senior Laura Martin said. “We need to race a 35 and we’re going to work on that because we’re a really fast team, but our goal is to get up our strokes.” One positive for the team was that it seemed...
...first-ever Ivy League match against Harvard (4-10, 2-3 Ivy League). The distinction of being the first Ivy League team to lose to the Lions has not set well with the Crimson. “Everyone was pumped up to play,” freshman Kaitlin Martin said. “We knew we had to win this game.” The Crimson scored the first three goals of the game and, by halftime, had amassed a 10-4 advantage over Columbia. Harvard furthered its lead with three more goals to give a nine-goal separation...
...Martin Lee Anderson, 14, died Jan. 5, hours after arriving at a juvenile boot camp for stealing his grandmother's car and violating probation. A local coroner says sickle cell trait, not an altercation with boot camp guards, killed Anderson. But an eerily silent surveillance video shows Bay County deputies restraining, kicking and punching the boy, who at times appeared limp and unable to comply. The results of a second autopsy remain secret, but at least one coroner involved says the youth did not die of sickle cell, or any other natural causes...