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...With schizophrenia, you pick your poison. But until last week, it often felt like a game of chance, played with a loved one's precious marbles. Now, thanks to a landmark study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) comparing four of the new drugs and one older one, we finally know how these potions stack up. All in all, the results are pretty heartbreaking. Three-quarters of the nearly 1,500 patients in the 18-month trial stopped taking the drug they were assigned, often because it wasn't working or had intolerable side effects. Zyprexa did best (merely...
...Vice-President Clay T. Capp ’06 diligently went door-to-door in the Yard, encouraging ambitious freshmen to learn more about the council. Upperclassmen Houses, however, seemed to lack this type of active promotion. There were too few e-mails and precious little visible publicity. A real person, an enthusiastic advocate of the UC, can evoke what dry words on a barren Secure CRT shell cannot. If more upperclassmen had been personally encouraged to run for the UC, or at least urged to do so by a warm and friendly poster, undergrads might not be facing...
...gaze awe-struck at the player who finished second in the voting for the National League Cy Young Award in 1995, and who, more importantly, was at the center of the baseball universe for a few precious days in October...
...billions in ad revenues to Google and Yahoo. By consolidating their websites into a mammoth network, they could sell ads across the board. Hooking up would be a defensive play too. Google raised $4.1 billion in a stock offering last week and has been encroaching on Microsoft's most precious turf, the computer desktop. Microsoft is worried about falling further behind Google in the Web-search races and would love to get AOL to replace its Google search engine with Microsoft's. The AOL unit could fetch as much as $20 billion on the market, and spinning off a piece...
...improve that situation. It might also halt the flow of students moving from History to other concentrations. Incidentally, a distributional requirement would automatically increase the attendance of pre-modern courses. Freshmen shopping History 10a today, ponder your choice carefully. You can surely pick a more valuable experience for your precious first semester at Harvard. Meanwhile, join your peers in the hope that History 10a will not be with us much longer—with luck, it will be gone before your senior year...