Word: rare
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...rare move, a University alumnus will run as an independent petition candidate in the annual Board of Overseers election this spring, Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) officials said yesterday...
While petition candidates have run for the Board for the past two years, all have been pro-divestment candidates. Traditionally, candidates to the Board not nominated by the University are rare, in part because of the difficulty of obtaining the alumni signatures needed to qualify a candidate for the ballot...
...especially worrisome. Some researchers suspect that because a teenager's cervix has more developing cells than an adult's, it is more vulnerable to HPV. At Children's Hospital in Boston about six teenagers a year must undergo surgery for cervical cancer, which in the past was extremely rare in the young...
Included in the book are 16 pages of rare photographs, most of them collected for the Man of the Year issue by TIME Picture Researcher Robert Stevens. "Though Gorbachev is the leader of one of the world's two most powerful nations, little was known about who he is, where he came from and what he believes in," says Senior Editor Donald Morrison, who edited the book. "We believe our book is the most detailed biography published so far about this extraordinary...
Seizinger and his team analyzed blood samples from more than 200 people from nine families affected with VHL to find the gene that causes the rare inherited disorder whose victims may get tumors in their central nervous system and kidneys...