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...love to feign insouciance about cancer, or to tell apocryphal stories about its apparently random nature - of some haggard two-pack-a-day smoker who lived to be 96, versus the exquisite gamine who never smoked, always used sunscreen and did yoga, but went in for a routine checkup and was told she wouldn't see her 25th birthday. But while it used to be difficult to know who would and who would not be its victims, cancer is easier to predict these days. Its causes are actually very well understood, and many types of the disease are preventable - which...
...another lazy day in this university town in the mountains southeast of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, and hundreds of kids are lolling around the ubiquitous Internet cafes. In one popular "warnet," as these hangouts are known, a pack of high schoolers is waging a ferocious online battle against a gang of digital thugs, while another gaggle of teenagers gleefully downloads Japanese porn. Off in the corner, Sweetnurse and his friends are also busy online, but they will have much more to show for their efforts. "What would you like to buy today?" inquires Sweetnurse, a twentyish musician who asks...
...categories of life sciences and biomedicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. The University ranked fourth in natural sciences, and 15th among top technological universities. In that last category, the only one in which Harvard did not make the top five, Cambridge neighbor Massachusetts Institute of Technology led the pack. The education company Quacquarelli Symonds compiles the data used to produce the rankings, known as the THES-QS World University Rankings. Martin Ince, contributing editor for THES and the rankings’ 2007 editor, said Harvard kept the top position on the list because of its excellence in several categories...
...Holmquest said. “It was a crowded race, but I was in a good rhythm the whole way, so I was never too concerned about my place because nobody really made a huge move.”Holmquest briefly spent time in the front of the pack, looking to capitalize on a strong two weeks of preparation.“Right around two and a half miles, in about a 200-meter stretch, I got up into the top five on a little burst down the downhill,” he said. “Looking back...
...Atlantic Coast Dinghies at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla., while the No. 8 women took ninth at the Atlantic Coast Women’s regatta at Yale. The results came on a weekend of sometimes unpredictable conditions, providing a bit of consolation to the middle-of-the-pack finishes for both teams. “It was a pretty good finish, all things considered,” captain skipper Kyle Kovacs said. Though the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association’s Shields Trophy is set to take place this weekend in Fort Worth, Tex., this past weekend?...