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...Alex, 38, and Stephen, 35, grew up in metro Atlanta, the second and third sons of a minister. (Their older brother works at IBM). Both earned communication degrees at Georgia's Kennesaw State University, attended seminary and got ministerial jobs at Sherwood. After reading a study about the influence of movies on culture and the relative lack of influence of the church, the brothers decided to return to what had been an adolescent hobby, playing with a video camera. In 2003, they asked their church for $20,000 to form a production company, Sherwood Pictures, and make a movie, Flywheel...
These tools can also grant older medications a new lease on life. Take the cancer drug MabThera, sold in the U.S. as Rituxan. MabThera was originally developed to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. In 2006, Roche scientists noticed--again using biomarkers--that it was also extremely effective in certain cases of rheumatoid arthritis, a painful autoimmune condition that causes joint inflammation. Roche's sales to arthritis patients have already totaled more than $420 million...
...credit poetry...both for being itself and for being a help, for making possible a fluid and restorative relationship between the mind’s centre and its circumference.” The first half of the hour-long reading consisted of Heaney’s older works. Two of the poems Heaney read he composed specifically for Harvard. The first, ‘Alphabets,’ he created for the 1984 Phi Beta Kappa induction ceremony, and is one of his more famous poems. He also read ‘Villanelle,’ which he read...
...authors said that the study’s findings call into question the rationality of economic activity. The consequences of this are applicable to finance, according to co-author Benjamin C. Campbell, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Companies should consider hiring more women or older men, he said, because lower testosterone levels may lead to less-risky investments. Apicella cautions, though, that the results are meant to show a correlation rather than to infer causality. “It could be that having more testosterone makes you more risky, we just don’t know...
...ties the Crimson’s 1980-’85 consecutive win streak. “At this point in the game, Princeton’s a really strong team,” women’s captain Kelsey LeBuffe said. “They have a much older team than we do. But our goal with this meet was to hand Yale a solid loss and get closer to Princeton. While they may have their hands on our streak right now, we have really strong freshman and sophomore classes, both showing a lot of potential...