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...latest estimates show just how widespread that problem is. In 2007 there were 12 million new cancer cases worldwide, a record high; in 2000, the number was 10 million and in 1975 it was 5.9 million. Of the new cases last year, nearly half struck in developing countries. If these trends continue, health officials predict that by 2030, 17 million people will die worldwide of cancer, and 75 million people will be living with the disease and require treatment and follow-up care. That makes cancer the leading killer in the world, claiming more lives than AIDS, TB and malaria...
...resource nations that are home to the most smokers. In 1992, for example, China reached a smoking rate of 10 cigarettes per person per day - the peak level in the U.S. in the 1950s. Forty years later, Americans paid the price of all that lighting up, with a record 33% of all middle-aged deaths caused by cigarettes. If smoking in China continues to climb in coming years - and without public health programs to discourage it, it likely will - an even higher proportion of its population will succumb to cancer after...
Harvard’s endowment—the largest in higher education—fell 22 percent in four months from its June 30 value of $36.9 billion, trumping the previous record loss of 12.4 percent in 1974, according to a letter from University President Drew G. Faust last week...
...have well thought-out policies—that in many cases are quite similar to those of Schwartz and Biggers—and would prove able stewards of the Undergraduate Council.But while Schwartz and Biggers are not the only attractive choices, they are the best. Both have a remarkable record of service in the past. As Chair of the CEB, Ben Schwartz worked to increase the body’s relevance and plan successful large-scale events that generated unprecedented enthusiasm, like last year’s Yardfest. Alneada Biggers, on the other hand, brings an outsider?...
...vaccinated now. There's no cure for the influenza virus, which in its worldwide perambulations can mutate from a simple runny nose-and-sore-throat to a fatal illness. Each year, 36,000 Americans die from the flu, but thanks to National Influenza Vaccination Week and a record number of available doses, maybe this year will be better...