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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...growth rate of 12.2 percent was down from Harvard's average of 20.1 percent over the last five years. But the world's richest university isn't hitting the panic button...
...nervous? In the past two weeks, the Dow Jones industrial average has fallen 529 points, a drop of nearly 10% since its August peak, punctuating a dismal third quarter. Investors are hoping--praying might be a better word--that Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan will decide against the third interest-rate hike of 1999 when the central bank's Open Market Committee meets this week...
...doctor won't tell you what his or her complication rate is, find another one. Ask how many of the doctor's patients have worse vision--even with contacts or glasses--than they did before the surgery. For top doctors the figure is under...
Still, Nichols wanted to know how FGN-1 worked. Until then, colon cancer was thought to be a disease of uncontrolled growth. Nichols' scientists suspected instead that the problem was uncontrolled death. Cells lining the intestines usually live only 72 hours. But while cells are born at the usual rate in FAP patients, some fail to self-destruct, producing an excess. Johns Hopkins' Giardiello eventually showed that drugs like sulindac work by restoring the natural process of cell death in the colon. Precisely how it does that, however, remains unknown...
...LSAT was administered at various locations around Boston. The sight of blood makes me queasy, and I have not taken a single substantive college science course. Having ruled out the MCAT, I took the LSAT instead. I heard somewhere that Harvard Law School has the lowest student-satisfaction rate of any similar institution in the country. It's my first choice...