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...common procedure used to treat heart attacks, a Harvard study reported earlier this month. The study—commissioned by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health—found the angioplasty death rate for patients admitted with heart attacks or in a state of shock was 12.6 percent at Mass. General in 2007, far above the state average of 5.5 percent. Angioplasty, a process by which a doctor clears blocked arteries using small inflated balloons, is performed on more than 1 million people in the United States each year, according to the American Heart Association. Dr. Michael A. Fifer...
Three Aces Pizza on Mass Ave., a favorite haunt of quadlings and graduate students, remains closed despite a sign that promises a January 16 return of the “original management,” after renovations are completed. The restaurant, which has been closed since January 11, is located at 1613 Mass. Ave., just beyond the North Yard construction at the Harvard Law School. The abandoned pizzeria shared the one-story retail building—owned by Harvard Real Estate—with four other businesses: the boutique “Looks,” the manicure shop Fancy...
...administrators and professors, has been decorated with the artwork of current students. In an effort to inject a contemporary feel into the high-profile space and to increase the visibility of student art at Harvard, University President Drew G. Faust welcomed the work of student artists to Mass Hall on February 5. The exhibition, which features the creations of 22 students in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, showcases the artistic diversity of Harvard’s undergraduate population. “We wanted to give a sense of the range of approaches that students in the VES Department...
...appear somewhat inscrutable. Little seems to link the bizarre assortment of films, ranging from the most camp B movies of the 1950s (“I Married a Monster from Outer Space”) to new releases (“Chrysalis”) to, perhaps strangest of all, mass-marketed Hollywood fare (“Transformers”). But fans point to the distinctive worldview that sci-fi films provide as a unifying thread through the festival.“I like the positive view of the future,” says Jim Peterson, a 10-year attendee...
...cheapens the images, making them look like blown-up postcards. The angles and views of the locations are more ‘familiar’ than the sites themselves because they are essentially formulaic. As a result, it is impossible to develop a deeper personal reflection on the seemingly mass-manufactured photographs...