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...most rehab programs report a more than 50% relapse rate in their patients within months. First attempts to quit smoking cold turkey fail just as often. So, helping drinkers and smokers cut down, even if they can't quit immediately, may have significant value, says Teri Franklin, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. "If you can prevent people from inhaling the 4,000 chemicals in just one cigarette, over 400 of which are carcinogenic, you can get a health benefit," she says, noting that she was only able to quit smoking by first cutting down...
...cyberlaw professors at Harvard agree with Nesson's unorthodox approach. In an emailed exchange, Law School professor Lawrence Lessig, who argued against copyright extensions before the Supreme Court, wrote that Nesson did "the law too much kindness by trying to pretend (or stretch) 'fair use' excuses what [Tenenbaum...
UPDATED 4:22 P.M. Police tapes from the July 16 arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shed little light on the dynamics of the now nationally publicized confrontation, but confirm that the caller did not cite the race of the two men she saw breaking into Gates' home when she called police...
...Kevin C. O'Connor, an assistant professor of neurology who has worked with Hafler for over 10 years, said that Hafler has expressed interest in taking his senior staff with him to Yale, but that nothing has been finalized...
...policy that a couple who are both the only child in their families can have a second child has been around for years," says Wang Feng, professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, who is currently lecturing at Shanghai's Fudan University. "The Shanghai government is doing nothing more than reiterating an old policy, but by doing so, it's calling attention to this political hot potato...