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...despite the fact that diabetes patients lost less weight after surgery than patients without the disease, 90% of the former group still saw their blood-sugar levels fall after the procedure. That meant they could also cut back significantly on the amount of medication they needed. According to Dr. Osama Hamdy, director of the Obesity Clinical Program at Joslin Diabetes Center, the chances may be even better for those patients who address their diabetes early on. "If you have had diabetes for a long time, your response to surgery may not be as good as that of people who have...
...speech, which was co-sponsored by the International Relations Council and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, was part of a larger event meant to introduce students to the two organizations...
...learn Portuguese to interning on Wall Street, the Harvard community is hardly lacking when it comes to interesting summers.But for senior Emily Cross and freshman Noam Mills of the Harvard fencing team, this summer went far beyond the norm for even the overly ambitious Harvard students. This summer meant the fulfillment of a lifelong dream at the Olympics in Beijing.“Ever since I was a child, my biggest dream was to go and succeed there,” Mills said. “So I fulfilled the first part, I got there, but I didn?...
...used to need two different trucks to get recycling,” he said. “That meant we spent two times as much in labor vehicle maintenance and clogged up the loading docks for a longer time...
Harvard spent $1.6 billion from its endowment to support University operations this year, an increase of nearly 25 percent over the previous years. Nevertheless, unprecedented growth in the size of the endowment meant that the University still spent less than five percent of its accumulated wealth, the number that Harvard claims is its goal. Payout rates have become a hotly debated issue in higher education in the last year as Senator Charles E. Grassley, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, began attacking what he saw as “hoarding” among schools with large and fast...