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...terms of clinical complications of cardiovascular disease the cohort really hasn't aged enough for us to study that. I think the oldest subjects in the study now, who were examined as children, are about 45. Still, there have been probably at least a dozen studies that have been able to do this around the world. Many studies have been conducted in England, but in all honesty the results have been somewhat conflicting. Some studies found a slightly increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Some studies - but not all of them - have found an increased risk of mortality. I think, though...
Twenty-four juniors were elected earlier this month into the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest undergraduate honors society in the country. This year, 12 of the “Junior 24” are male and 12 are female, and more than half of the winners in natural sciences are women. “For the first time, I think, the women have achieved equality and some of those women were also in the natural sciences,” said James F. Coakley ’68, the secretary of Harvard’s chapter, Alpha Iota...
...Revolutionary War, soldiers of the Continental Army were billeted in this small but cozy building in the heart of Harvard Yard. Legend has it they melted down the doorknobs in order to make ammunition, and they certainly were not the ideal houseguests. But their humble abode still stands, the oldest building at Harvard and the second-oldest academic building in the country (behind the Christopher Wren building at the College of William and Mary). During the nineteenth century, Mass. Hall was used as dormitory, office, and administrative space. In the 1920s it was converted back into a dormitory...
Locarno International Film Festival, Aug. 6-16 Founded over 60 years ago, this festival in the Swiss-Italian town of Locarno is one of the oldest. Thanks to a penchant for the work of auteurs, it has earned a reputation for spotting greatness early on - past audiences were watching films by directors like Stanley Kubrick and Spike Lee long before anyone knew who they were. But the real draw is what might be the world's most beautiful screening room: the Piazza Grande. Every evening, a massive screen is set up in the Renaissance square and thousands gather to watch...
...Stoeckel’s liner thudded off the Monster right back to the left fielder, who heaved it to second base. The senior quickly shuffled back to first and realized that he had been a part of one the intricacies of the nation’s oldest Major League stadium...