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...hands at working the same miracle. Within two years, more than 60 teams had replaced ailing hearts in some 150 patients. But keeping a patient's immune system from turning on the new organ often required large doses of immunosuppressant drugs that left patients vulnerable to deadly infections. Eighty percent of transplant recipients died within a year. Surgeons grew discouraged; by 1970, the number of transplants had plunged to 18, down from 100 just two years earlier. (See TIME's Wellness blog about health and fitness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heart Transplants | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...Arabs make about five percent of the world population but produce one percent of the books published,” she said...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Speaker Pushes For Arab Reform | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

Grade deflation is tricky to execute because it is by nature a negative academic move. In 2004, Princeton officially implemented a grade-deflation policy intending that As would make up only 35 percent of the grades given out in each department. However, five years later in the 2008-2009 academic year, As still made up 39.7 percent of all grades—and even this relatively high number was considered a major accomplishment. This situation reflects complications that grade deflation encounters at the individual level. Even if a grade-deflation policy were announced, high-achieving Harvard students would expect...

Author: By Anita J Joseph | Title: The Case for the A-Plus | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...Ninety-three percent of voters in Massachusetts don't even know when Election Day is, which is of course December 8," Jacobson said, referring to the date of the primary. "So we wanted to come up with some sort of idea to gain more attention and get the word out that we need more debates...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Khazei Wants Colbert to Come to Massachusetts | 11/15/2009 | See Source »

Become a saint: 0.00000005 percent...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: And You Thought Getting Into Harvard was Hard... | 11/14/2009 | See Source »

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