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...meeting focused on implementing the legislation passed last fall, which was intended to reduce the financial burden on students and shorten the time it takes to receive degrees...
Although the use of performance enhancers is prohibited in most sports, it isn't just a question of cheating. The drugs can kill athletes--or make them very sick and shorten their career. Yet they keep taking the stuff, relying on so-called drug gurus to dose them in undetectable ways, and on ever more elaborate strategies to beat drug tests. One of the most devious: using a catheter to pump someone else's urine into their urethra just before a test...
...author of the study. Bloom and his colleagues examined 1,067 moms-to-be with routine pregnancies and randomly divided them into a group who walked during the first stage of labor and another group who stayed in bed. To their surprise, the researchers found that walking didn't shorten the labor or reduce the need for pain killers, nor did it lower the rate of C-sections. But a full 99% of the women who walked said they'd like to do it again for their next delivery. "Walking gave the women more of a sense of control," Bloom...
According to former editor-in-chief Jia-Rui Chong '98, the magazine has also had to shorten its issues because of financial constraints...
...over time? Will new side effects show up with long-term use? Will tumors that appear while a woman is on tamoxifen be harder to treat (preliminary studies suggest they may be)? Can other drugs confer comparable protection without side effects? And most important, did taking tamoxifen lengthen or shorten these women's life...