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...tool established by a landmark study that began in 1948 (and continues today), which identified seven major predictors of heart disease - older age, diabetes, smoking, high blood pressure, high total cholesterol, low HDL cholesterol and a BMI in the overweight or obese range. The Reynolds score is a more recent screen that uses the Framingham risk factors as a base and adds another, inflammation, which in recent studies has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease. (See the 50 best inventions...
...recent merger of the Office of Career Services and the Office of International Programs under a new umbrella organization may seem like a reversal of the College’s decision to separate the two offices eight years...
...recent meetings, councillors have acknowledged that it is crucial to elect a mayor, as he or she would be responsible for appointing chairpersons of other government committees. Councillors have also repeatedly alluded to the mayor’s responsibility of chairing the Cambridge School Committee...
...College, and actor Blair Underwood—who spent a week at Harvard as an Office for the Arts artist in residence earlier this year—at Emerson College. These speakers are undoubtedly worthy choices, but they do not have the cache of the University’s recent speakers, and it would be ungrateful of us not to appreciate our speakers on the basis of their cultural significance alone. Regardless of whether his speech inspires students to go into public service or is just interesting, the fact that Justice Souter is coming to speak at Commencement should make...
...Given the history of the past year, and the last 20 years, that is not going to be easy. A Democratic plan to force a series of politically challenging votes for Republicans, rather than concentrate on passing legislation, will not warm things up. And a recent White House meeting about job growth featured tense exchanges between Obama and both Republican Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and Republican House minority leader John Boehner. There has already been much ugly speculation about the upcoming White House-hosted health care summit: whether it is an actual attempt at bipartisanship or some sort...