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...Such an achievement would pay off in the short-term—giving the Crimson the seventh seed in the EIVA Conference Championship instead of the eighth—as well as set up Harvard for the future. The winner of the Hay division each year moves up into the Tait division, composed of teams like Penn State, currently ranked seventh in the country...
...diabetes do not show symptoms of their disease - such as high blood sugar levels - until they have depleted their beta cell population considerably. Dr. David Nathan, director of the diabetes center at Massachusetts General Hospital, notes that at this point, there may not be enough beta cells remaining to seed a new population of insulin-growing cells, even with an infusion of stem cells to give them a more hospitable environment. "This study shows that it can work, but how long it will work is a question," he says. Previous studies have shown that after an immune cell transplant, beta...
...increase by 18 percent, as more families suffer the effects of a weak economy. The strategic payout has previously helped to support faculty expansion and renovation of student space at the Law School, as well as the Medical School’s fledgling Department of Systems Biology, which received seed funding over a five-year period as part of a University-wide effort to expand interdisciplinary initiatives, according to department head Marc Kirschner. —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu...
...several hundred miles off the Somali coast. They once portrayed themselves as a coast guard for a country that has no government, and said they were striking back against fishing boats that illegally fished and dumped toxic waste in their waters. But what may have started as a seed of retaliation has bloomed into a full-blown criminal enterprise, with pirate financiers and organizers in cities across the world and the exchange of millions of dollars in ransom...
...poets, he is virtually literary nobility. While his father was on assignment as a diplomat, the young Yosano received some of his schooling in Cairo, where he remembers being asked: what is it like to be a citizen of a defeated country? The sting of that question became the seed of his political career. After graduating with a law degree, Yosano worked five years for the Japan Atomic Power Co. before taking a job as secretary to former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone in 1968. In 1976, Yosano won a Diet seat for the Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo prefecture...