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Kubacki is as quick to deny that he is a good student as he is to deny that he is a great athlete. He was pre-med for one semester until he "got blown away by some Chem course." "All those electrons and neutrons," Kubacki admits with a chuckle. "I don't even believe it any more...
...motives for the scheme were apparently altogether noble ones. There were five new Med School buildings to be built, and Eliot had agreed to pay for three of them, with Harvard footing the bill for the remaining two. Eliot and the architects' effort was designed to put as much expense as possible into the financier's buildings so the considerably less flush University could keep its own costs down...
...buildings is lost because the architectural firm did not retain in its letters Eliot's instructions about the buildings. In any event, the money was obtained, and the five buildings were built--in the original gray Dorset marble, as it turned out. They are now the centerpiece of the Med School, solemnly dominating the grassy central quadrangle that they surround...
Figures compiled by Isselbacher's committee two years ago indicate that about one-quarter of the Med School's senior faculty was engaged in cancer study, although the percentage was lower for lower ranks in the medical faculty. Isselbacher acknowledges that the extent of federal funding has made cancer research glamorous, and that of reasonable concern is just what will happen to cancer-related, academic departments when the disease is cured or out of fashion...
...surface of the cell, like Folkman's Angiogenesis Factor, which are foreign to the victim. Genetically, too, "the cancer cell is of a given differentiated type that loses control of its own growth," Benacerraf says. He is on the fourth floor of Building D at the stolid gray Med School quadrangle, and when he alludes to other investigations of cancer, it is usually by reference to the floor or building on the quadrange where the research is being conducted. His only apparent bias seems to be against the clinicians, whose "gross" methods of extinguishing cancer do not deal with...