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...special meeting of the Collegium's executive committee last week, Marvin announced his personal decision and the executive committee decided that without Marvin they had to cancel the tour, Ellis said...
...Great Britain after the choral group's conductor said he would not lead the tour in light of recent terrorist attacks, even if the risk was small. "I could not accept responsibility for 50 lives. It's too much of a chance to take," said Collegium conductor Jameson N. Marvin...
...This is a golden age for biostatistical science," said Professor of Statistical Science Marvin Zelen, who chairs the department. "More people are using the ideas of probability and statistics for a better understanding of biomedical problems...
Locusts and termites are unlikely candidates for an American dinner menu, but they are high-protein foods that nourish many Africans who, argues Anthropologist Marvin Harris, make such choices by preference that developed from necessity. Seemingly bizarre culinary customs are revealed as plain common sense by the author in an insightful and intriguing new book, Good to Eat (Simon & Schuster; $17.95). Citing economic, ecological and health considerations as forerunners of religious, folkloric and even social eating customs, Harris writes, "When India's Hindus spurn beef, Jews and Moslems abominate pork, and Americans barely avoid retching at the thought...
...study conducted by Marvin Zelen, professor of statistical science, and Stephen W. Lagakos, associate professor of biostatistics, does just that, said the researchers...