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...Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan, lead author of the study and head of the screening group at the International Agency for Research on Cancer. There are small-scale cancer screening efforts underway primarily in urban areas throughout Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, but they serve only a tiny slice of the population who would benefit, according to Sankaranarayanan. For example, "in India, less than one million pap smears are taken each year," he says, a fraction of the more than 200 million women who are at risk for developing cervical cancer...
...essential change mentioned in the report is renovating house dining facilities to allow for longer and more flexible dining-hall hours. This proposal is sure to be greeted with delight by nocturnal students craving something more substantial than a slice of bread from brain break after their dinner at an hour better suited to an early-bird special. Many students stay up long past the time when food is available, and extending dining-hall hours would reduce the need for students to spend additional money on food outside of the dining hall...
...economists looked at companies with fewer than 50 employees, and those with more than 1,000, going back to the 1970s-a period that spanned four business cycles. They found that the bigger firms, after adjusting for their larger share of the workforce, account for a greater slice of job destruction during and after recessions-whether through layoffs or simply not hiring workers they would have otherwise. Immediately coming out of a recession, smaller companies were an unusually important source of new job growth, but once economic expansion really took hold, large companies resumed the role of job-creator, added...
...dining hall cheeses contain rennet—extract of animal stomach membrane used to curdle milk—and posed the question to Harvard’s Food Literacy Project [http://www.dining.harvard.edu/flp/about.html]. In response, HUDS recently reviewed every kind of cheese used in the dining halls, leaving no slice or shred unturned. The verdict? All cheeses are innocent except for one—the sliced American...
...pretty uneventful game so far, Crimson staff writer and resident Scotsman Allen Padua added some excitement by wolfing down a vegetable pizza slice in the press box, exhibiting some ruthless efficiency yet still somehow managing to maintain his Old World dignity...