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...just for the 300 chronic-heart-failure patients the trial will study or the two in 1,000 people who are diagnosed with the condition in developed countries every year and face a 37% risk of dying in the first year. The London trial is among the first large-scale efforts to determine whether stem cells - building blocks of the body that have the potential to become new cell types - will someday provide cures for debilitating diseases and disorders, including Alzheimer's disease and arthritis. No single study is expected to establish that definitively, but Mathur's is an important...
...Until the UC looks different, it is going to be very hard to change it because people want a group that looks like them,” Nowski said. “I hope that next year the UC will roll [the workshop] out on a larger scale, potentially targeting all freshmen, but specifically women and underrepresented groups on the UC,” she added. Candidates for this year’s UC elections must declare their candidacies by this Friday. Campaigning begins Sunday at noon, and voting runs from...
...completely unrelated [to AAA]” in their office. The box, containing frames and other belongings, is most likely the property of the Kuumba Singers, another student group allocated space in Hilles. Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II, an instrumental figure in the large-scale uproot to Hilles, said that no other groups reported items missing as a result of the cross-campus move. The student groups did not have any involvement with the transportation of their items. “Nothing was in our control,” said Harvard-Radcliffe RAZA treasurer Eloy Villanueva...
...fish." To read the magisterial Carpentaria (Giramondo; 519 pages) is to enter Wright's world. What's evoked is not just a physical place, where "you could swear you heard the daydreams of lazy lizards sunning themselves on the branches," but a spiritual realm painted on an operatic scale, where the ancestral rainbow serpent forges the land, a river of fairy people, the yinbirras, rushes tsunami-like through the bush, and a cyclone hits the coast as an act of payback. Wright is Proustian in her love of detail but postmodern in her playfulness: " 'Where hid reality?' Elias asked...
...possession at the moment, but you’ve got to stop wearing your Harvard ID on a lanyard around your neck. Many of you freshmen wear that thing with such passion and commitment that it looks like you’re about to meet up with Samwise and scale Mt. Doom. Some of you have already discovered subatomic particles, yet you still haven’t discovered the joys and practicality of the pocket, wallet, or purse. Buy a briefcase, put your ID in it, and handcuff it to you wrist if it’s that important...