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...should continue planning the small events it executes well. While these events might not draw the entire campus, they accomplish more than the large-scale events because they bring people together based on common interests and facilitate genuine social interaction.Few locations could hold more potential as a pillar of Harvard’s social life than the Cambridge Queen’s Head. From its opening in April, the Pub has lured students week after week with live music, kitschy décor, and $2 drafts. Much recognition should go to the students and College administrators behind the Pub?...
...treatment into a single pill, says Patel, "is probably going to be one of the biggest steps forward we can make at this stage." The trials will pit a polypill-based strategy against standard care. The aim: to find out whether the tinkering with dosages that's been a pillar of cardiovascular treatment-5 mg more of this, 5 mg less of that-really makes much difference. The answer is probably no, says Patel, even though "we might feel threatened as doctors by that...
...this collaboration is a symbol of an even larger phenomenon. For decades, if not centuries, democratization has been a pillar of the Western ideal of progress. Whereas political democratization took world wars and falling empires to evolve, media democratization is quickly becoming a tangible reality through publicly accessible content over the Internet. Web 2.0 is ever furthering its reach...
...that makes it easier for the immune system to recognize. His results were striking: the vaccine eliminated the residual tumor cells left after chemotherapy in 15 of his 20 patients. Now Bendandi, who worked with Kwak at the nih, has erected what he calls "the third pillar" of customized therapy by demonstrating that the vaccine produces not just molecular benefits, but clinical ones as well. In other words, the patients in his study lived cancer free for longer than expected...
...when a paper by two Harvard neurophysiologists, Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley, ran in the American Journal of Psychiatry. At the time, Sigmund Freud's theory of dreams (which holds, in part, that dreams preserve sleep by distracting the brain with reflections of the unconscious) was a pillar of psychiatry. In The Brain as a Dream State Generator: An Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis of the Dream Process, the Harvard pair challenged Freudian theory on virtually every point. They argued that dreams are nonsense created when the forebrain makes "the best of a bad job in producing even partially coherent dream imagery...