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...Doctors tend not to recommend trachea transplants because the windpipe is one of the body's organs most prone to rejection. But because of Sánchez's unique situation - she was young and had a rare kind of tracheal damage - Spanish medical authorities granted special permission to Macchiarini and his team to go ahead with an experimental treatment...
Last year’s pep rally for The Game did not go exactly according to plan. Despite Harvard’s best (and rare!) attempt at pep, rainy weather forced would-be cheerleaders to take their party inside. But tonight will be different. “It’s outside rain or shine,” says Vice-chair of the College Events Board Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 confidently. Regardless of how wet or cold you may be, the CEB has ensured that Girl Talk, the popular DJ, will be covered by a tent...
...national title, and I have the resources here at Harvard to do that,” Caputo explains. “More importantly, though, I want the team to reach its potential, and I think we’re on our way.”It may not be rare for athletes to speak of a “team first” mentality, but in a format that hinges on one-on-one battles, Weiss recognizes the value of his captain’s mentality.“It’s very difficult in an individual sport...
...bases in the countryside, from which they could be called into action to support Iraqi security forces, as they currently do across much of Iraq. The SOFA also gives Iraq expanded legal jurisdiction when serious crimes are committed by U.S. troops who are off-base and off-duty - a rare circumstance for American troops in Iraq. The U.S. has also agreed not to attack Iraq's neighbors from inside Iraq - a key provision in persuading the many allies of Iran in the Iraqi government to support the agreement - and to refrain from searching Iraqi homes or detaining Iraqis without their...
...have their historic handshake, the ground is already shifting underneath U.S.-Vatican relations. After the Bush Administration, the election of a pro-choice, pro-diplomacy Democratic President is changing the Vatican's game plan vis-à-vis Washington on several levels. Bush was viewed in Rome as a rare ally in the West for his opposition to such issues as abortion, gay marriage and stem-cell research. And the first issue to watch is abortion. (See a map showing the new fronts in the U.S. abortion battle...