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...paper that isolated such "risk factors" (a term Dawber coined) for heart disease as high blood pressure and high-cholesterol levels. A few years later, he rescued the Framingham study--which the government was considering shutting down--by raising money to continue the research and facilitating the study's partnership, still in effect, with Boston University...
...number of international fellows will remain at 12, including the two international Global Health Fellows. According to a press release from HSPH, the three new journalists will be chosen by the Nieman curator, a representative from the School of Public Health, and a journalist. The fellowships arose from a partnership between the Nieman Foundation and HSPH. According to Giles, the idea for a global health fellowship had been in the works for some time. The Gates Foundation heard about the idea and, about 18 months ago, approached Giles with the possibility of funding it. Winsten wrote that further development...
...like the push for a women’s center. Furthermore, the success of the pep rally two weeks ago indicates that John, as the new chair of the Campus Life Committee, is committed to a new and effective model for social programming that is student-initiated and in partnership with the Office of the Dean of Harvard College...
...possibility of coercion?were done without his knowledge, and that the donors begged him to deny a May 2004 report on their actions in the journal Nature. But the cover-up began to come undone on Nov. 12, when Hwang's main international collaborator abruptly ended their partnership, citing ethical concerns. On Nov. 21, Hwang's associate Roh Sung Il admitted that he had paid about 20 women $1,500 each for their eggs, a practice since declared illegal. "I had to keep it secret," Roh told Time, adding that Hwang's cloning breakthroughs would have been impossible without...
...multinationals are counting on it, anyway. Hecla is one firm that seems to have learned how to navigate chavismo. Last year it mined 130,000 oz. of gold in large part by investing $2.2 million in a partnership with about 450 miners, providing them with training, equipment like ventilators and chain saws--and legal status. An additional 140 are being brought in. "If it weren't for [Hecla], we'd still be out there with our picks and shovels getting nowhere," says Mireya Cobarrubia, 42, a mining veteran. Says local Hecla manager José Pino: "It isn't a problem...