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...start at Harvard until well on his way to rock success. Still, renowned guitarists such as Dean Wareham ’85 (of Galaxie 500 and Luna) and Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave’s Tom Morello ’86 spent their undergraduate careers as mild-mannered Social Studies concentrators, and didn’t find real musical success until after leaving the Square. Perhaps Harvard is holding back musical genius, after all.Take the post-punk ensemble Blanks. When the band formed in 2003, members Matt Boch ’06-07, Jon Carter...
...children’s literature. An admirable goal, but in the novel, anyway, Taylor fails to address the implications of his hero’s origins—even when Demurral takes the step of branding him. The appearance of an African on the coast of Yorkshire elicits relatively mild surprise from the local inhabitants. Indeed, Raphah’s skin color and its evocation of the mysterious African continent appear to be little more than a gratuitous reminder of the ancient and mystical powers at work...
...treatment of strokes and can only be used within three hours after symptom onset, according to Eric E. Smith, lead author of the study and assistant neurologist at MGH Stroke Service. Some doctors avoid using tPA at early stages of stroke onset because symptoms appear to be mild or improving, according to Smith. Some patients also arrive at the hospital too late for treatment and would have an increased risk of brain hemorrhaging if tPA were given, Smith said. “This study found that 27 to 30 percent of these ‘too good to treat?...
...rescue workers. The girls had worn green blouses, probably ironed that morning by their mothers; the boys wore gray. That night, three days after the temblor, the French managed to pull a five-year-old from the rubble. It appeared that the boy, Nawfiz Shah, suffered only mild injuries on his face and hands. But when I visited him the following day, living in a tent with his mother, I learned that Nawfiz was still so traumatized that after first crying out in terror at "the darkness," he had then stopped speaking altogether. His mother cannot tell whether Nawfiz understood...
There have been 10 pandemics in the past 300 years. The most recent one was the relatively mild Hong Kong flu of 1968. But you can't say that we're overdue because biology is not that simple. Nor is it even certain that H5N1 is the strain that will eventually cause the next pandemic...