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...care centers across the U.S. Half the men were randomly assigned to receive regular PSA tests and physical exams. Since investigators could not ethically recommend that the other group not receive the screenings - which are, for now, considered the first defense against prostate cancer - they were simply given no particular recommendation at all. Half that group went ahead and had the exams on their own, and the remaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prostate Exams: When Are They Necessary? | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...Princeton probably had more fun than we did, just by virtue of being in Princeton, New Jersey. My impression is that Brown and Dartmouth also have a lot more fun just because it’s kind of the culture they’ve got. Harvard has a particular history of clamping down on anything resembling fun. But it’s gotten a lot better. 6.FM: You were a biology concentrator at Harvard. What was your love life like?AB: My love life as a Harvard student was pretty much non-existent. This is the problem with campuses like...

Author: By Gulus Emre, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Alex Benzer ’93 | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard College Dean L. Fred Jewett '57 introduced full randomization of the housing process to avoid the increasingly non-diverse student groupings. Students could choose a maximum of 16 students to block with, but could no longer request to be in a particular house; in other words, fate was introduced to the housing process. William F. Abely ’99, Bill, now an attorney in Boston, and his blocking group would become the first to perform a sacrificial rite the night before housing...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: Incantations, Voodoo and Revelry: A History of Appeasing the River Gods | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...Sara Jane Olson has become a symbol of particular kind of politics, a Rorschach test of personal feelings about the 1960s. My sense is her supporters are still very much behind her, while the people who quickly found her guilty haven't changed their minds either." Peter Erlinder, a professor at William Mitchell College of Law (Minneapolis Star-Tribune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sara Jane Olson: American Housewife, American Terrorist | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...House culture over the next three months. He and Robinson, who is a lecturer at the Law School, said they plan to be active on all fronts of House life, adding that they hope to expand opportunities for undergraduates to connect with the larger University community—in particular, with their colleagues at HLS.Sullivan said his and his wife’s administrative experience will be brought to bear as House Masters. And although the two are only the second House Master appointments from the Law School, Sullivan said they have had broad exposure to undergraduate life.While the couple...

Author: By Bita M. Assad and Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Historic Picks To Step in at Winthrop | 3/17/2009 | See Source »

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