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...mastectomies are often unnecessary; earlier studies have shown that many of the small cancers that a lumpectomy may leave behind are in the same region as the surgery site, and therefore will most likely be destroyed by the radiation treatment that follows. "Radiation is very good," says Dr. Larry Norton, a breast-cancer specialist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. "We do know that if you don't irradiate a breast after surgery, you get local recurrence." (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...about 3% to 5% of tumors that mammograms miss, but there is little evidence suggesting whether those additional tumors are malignant or benign. To find out the true benefit of MRI, he says, more research needs to be conducted. "Without randomized trials, we really don't know everything," says Norton...
Around the time our predecessors marched on Harvard Yard to protest that war, one of the finest literary figures of the century, Jorge Luis Borges, was at Harvard to deliver the prestigious Charles Eliot Norton lectures. Judging by their content, one could think Borges was not in touch with the profound transformations occurring all around him—rather than talking politics, he devoted the lectures to his recurrent literary themes: remembering and forgetting, poetry and metaphor, the craft of verse...
...authors of the Romantic period by the time he was 12. After graduating from Boston Latin School, Berenson attended Boston University for one year before transferring to Harvard in order to study Sanskrit, which Boston University did not offer. At Harvard, Berenson studied art history under Charles Eliot Norton and wrote literary essays for the Harvard Monthly, of which he was elected editor-in-chief in his senior year.After his graduation in 1887, Berenson had intended to be a critic and novelist, but a trip to Europe funded by Isabella Stewart Gardner and others convinced him to devote his life...
...That left the guys who couldn't get dates no option but to see Fighting, which is essentially Fight Club without Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, David Fincher or any pretense of artistry or ambiguity. Fighting is to Fight Club what its star Channing Tatum's one previous hit, the 2006 Step Up, was to every poor-boy-with-a-dream dance movie before it, from Saturday Night Fever to Save the Last Dance - which is to say, a worn retread, but with more bare-knuckle brawls. No matter: young guys' collective movie memory can be counted in the months...