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...around the stomach to limit food intake - had complications. Even more compelling, nearly two-thirds of patients lost their excess weight and significantly improved their obesity-related conditions like diabetes. "No one questions whether we should offer knee or hip replacements to people over age 65," says David A. Provost, an associate professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, who authored the study. "Weight loss surgery can provide similar quality of life improvements with less risk...
...There's something to be said for a great voice to so many cultures and nations in one church," says Fr. Thomas Baima, provost of the University of St. Mary of the Lake-Mundelein Seminary. "But the numbers are down. Society has changed. We need to reach out differently...
...Question Of Honor" [May 28] Duke University vice provost Bob Thompson defended the decision to abandon the Turnitin.com plagiarism-detection website on the ground that checking student work for plagiarism is inconsistent with "a place that is trying to presume honor." Honor is wonderful and admirable, but it cannot be willed upon a group of young men and women. Ethics courses and elegant speeches about the value of integrity are not enough to curb academic dishonesty. Thompson seems to think honest students are hurt by the expression of mistrust implicit in using Turnitin. Those students are smart enough to know...
Inside Harvard, the committee most seriously considered two candidates in addition to Faust: Provost Steven E. Hyman, a neurobiologist, and Law School Dean Elena Kagan. Summers had appointed both. When Corporation members scrambled to find a replacement for Summers after his abrupt resignation last year, they passed over Hyman, whom many considered a natural candidate for the job, in favor of Derek C. Bok, who led Harvard from 1971 to 1991. The provost had a reputation for being overly talkative about sensitive topics, and some committee members had doubts about his ability to tackle large-scale projects, according...
...express their opinions,” he wrote in a statement to The Crimson last week.Despite some skepticism, Bok said that 88 percent faculty across campus favored reform.LONG IN COMING Calendar reform has been a perennial issue at Harvard. In September 2003, then-University President Lawrence H. Summers, Provost Steven E. Hyman, and the University’s deans publicly supported a universal calendar for Harvard’s schools and announced the creation of Verba’s cross-school committee.Six months later, the committee published a report embracing a University-wide calendar with...