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...confusion is understandable. Only a tiny fraction of breast cancers diagnosed - less than 1% - occur in men. And because it happens so infrequently, much is still unknown about male breast cancer. "In women, we have studies based on hundreds of thousands of patients," says Dr. Larissa Korde, staff clinician at the National Cancer Institute's clinical genetics branch. For men, there are simply no studies of that scale. Though much can be extrapolated from research in women, Korde says, often "it's a little bit harder to make recommendations for men based on evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Get Breast Cancer Too | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...person’s livelihood or for substantial financial gain.” The law as a whole should be applauded. In recent years, the government has become increasingly aggressive in pushing journalists to name their confidential sources. Many are concerned about the potential chilling effect that would occur if the government could force journalists investigating its practices to divulge their sources. Journalists may hesitate before writing a controversial expose, and sources and whistle blowers would likely be reticent to come forward. While the law may not go far enough, it is at the very least a concrete step...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Shield College Journalists, Too | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

Many of HMC’s publicly-traded investments, however, are already made public due to regular disclosures Harvard is forced to make to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). To maintain some secrecy, these disclosures are lagged by about six weeks, though they occur quarterly and are archived in readily accessible databases like the SEC’s online EDGAR database. Any motivated investigator could satiate their curiosity about HMC’s publicly-traded balance sheet two months ago fairly easily. In fact, The Crimson has reported on Harvard’s investments in companies connected to Darfur...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: What Transparency? | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...when they conducted their research. Professor of Psychology Ellen J. Langer, who specializes in the pyschology of control, aging, and decision-making, agreed. “Positive experiences lead to positive sentiments,” she said yesterday afternoon. Jee added that similar results were likely to occur if students were given a negative external stimulus—such as a bad exam grade—before completing an evaluation. The pair said they became interested in the accuracy of evaluations during their own reviews. They chose chocolate for the study because they had noticed that distributing treats around evaluation...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Study: Chocolate Betters Course Ratings | 10/23/2007 | See Source »

...first half of the course. But after passing Weld Boathouse, the crew lost speed and fell back over the final third. In head racing, in which a boat does not have its opponents in its sights to push the squad to row faster, this slowing down is bound to occur. “Our stroke rate was higher than we expected,” Demers said. “But [during the race], we moved away from the boats ahead of us, so they were able to race against each other, whereas we were alone for the entire race...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At Head of the Charles, Women's Boats in Middle of the Pack | 10/22/2007 | See Source »

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