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...skillfully than Francis Ford Coppola had in Apocalypse Now or Oliver Stone had in Platoon - or more thoroughly than in PBS's 11-hour 1983 documentary history. In 1994, however, Hanks brought to the screen the impact of Vietnam on his generation in the tragicomic Forrest Gump. While the role earned him an Academy Award, Gump hardly epitomized the brutal nature of Vietnam, about which reporter Michael Herr had written so devastatingly in Dispatches. (See the top 10 fiction books...
Taveras, who directrs the One Step Ahead Program at Harvard-affiliate Children’s Hospital Boston, said that the study’s results will play a role in shaping childhood obesity prevention programs, as the research shows that earlier intervention is necessary especially among minority children...
...addition to its role as an anticoagulant, warfarin inhibits the VKOR homologue of mycobacterium tuberculosis—a productive agent of tuberculosis...
Waxman will step into his new role as president following this year’s Commencement, and Mitchell L. Adams ’66, who is the executive director of the independent public agency Mass. Technology Collaborative, was elected vice chair of the Board’s executive committee by their fellow overseers at their February meeting...
...past month, the Work Team—created shortly after the University announced that it would halt construction indefinitely on the Allston Science Complex due to financial constraints—has met with local community leaders and government officials to discuss Harvard’s immediate and future role in developing the Allston campus despite a drastically altered financial landscape...