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Compared with Andrew Levy, I'm a rank amateur. Levy is the author of A Brain Wider Than the Sky (Simon & Schuster; 289 pages), which is a memoir of his experiences as a headache sufferer - he gets debilitating migraines 10 times a year - combined with a cultural history of migraines in general. On the face of it, this is a wobbly premise, since there is almost nothing more boring than listening to somebody describe his headaches. (See first paragraph.) But it's a challenge to which Levy rises. He collects headaches like rare butterflies, and he has a rare, possibly...
...World Health Organization (WHO) used statistical measures, such as life expectancy and infant mortality, to rank the world's health-care systems. France topped the rankings. In 2008, researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine followed up the WHO study by showing that France is not only a good place to stay healthy, but also a good place to be sick: of 19 industrialized nations, France has the lowest number of "amenable deaths" - fatalities that could have been prevented by good health care. (The U.S. had the highest.) But France is not immune to the challenges...
...only player in Division I men’s basketball to rank among his league’s top 10 in every statistical category this year did not come from the ACC or the Big East. It was Harvard’s own Jeremy Lin, who has helped launch his name, as well as Crimson basketball, onto the national radar...
...Leary Cup.Both the Varsity Eight and the Second Varsity Eight showed good speed in the second half of the race course to comfortably edge the Big Green and the Orange.But the Charles River Challenge saw the Black and White lose to three ranked opponents—the aforementioned Yale, USC, and Virginia—before bouncing back with wins against Gonzaga and Tennessee to close the weekend. On the first day, Radcliffe struggled to find a consistent rhythm and prevent other crews from pulling away after the first 500 meters—something that the Black and White?...
...against BC was merely the start to a historic season for Lin. The junior, who averaged 17.8 points per game, 4.3 assists per game, and 5.5 rebounds per game, earned first-team All-Ivy honors and the team MVP award. Lin was the only player in the country to rank among the top 10 in his conference in every statistical category. Next season, Lin, along with junior forward Doug Miller, will serve as team captains...