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...Greek pop sensation “Petros”—in the gym of the Malkin Athletic Center to raise money for cancer research. From 10 p.m. Friday night to 8 a.m. Saturday, the Harvard Premedical Society and the Harvard Cancer Society held a dance marathon in order to raise money for the Jimmy Fund, which provides fundraising support for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. “Dance marathons have grown in importance in many other college campuses, becoming essentially what Harvard-Yale is to Harvard right now,” said Bianca A. Verma...

Author: By Wendy H. Chang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Dance All Night for Cancer Research | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

...Commission containing 34,800 signatures, or 2% of the province's population (as required by law). After the Commission publicizes the official request through the media this week, its backers must garner an additional 139,200 signatures to meet the required 10% of the province's voting population in order to call a referendum. The central government is then obliged to hold the vote within 15 days. "If we get 51% of the votes, Basra will become a region," al-Fadel says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Twist in Iraq's Shi'ite Power Struggle | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

...self-proclaimed “salesman of science,” C. Ronald Kahn says he loves simplifying the complexity of Type 2 Diabetes in order to teach the general public about the disease...

Author: By Joseph P. Shivers, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Med School’s Sweetest Professor Wins Award | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...creative and productive career has included responsibilities as senior investigator at the NIDDK, chair of the congressionally mandated diabetes research working group, and, from 2000 to 2007, president and director of the Harvard-affiliated Joslin Center. Kahn said he decided to step down from the presidency in order to focus more on the research he finds “invigorating...

Author: By Joseph P. Shivers, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Med School’s Sweetest Professor Wins Award | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...reticence about the state where he was born. They say local people were raised to be humble, a tradition that dates back to the 19th-century beginnings of Hawaii's plantation era, when everyone came from someplace else and pineapple and sugarcane workers needed to get along in order to survive in their new home. So it would be uncharacteristic, they say, for a true son of Hawaii to go to a big city like Chicago and brag about the sun-drenched beaches, tight family ways and tasty food of his home state. Instead, they say, someone like Obama would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hawaii vs. Illinois: Battling over a Favorite Son | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

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