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Kristen R. Hoelting ’03, the REP representative for Kirkland, said she and last semester’s representative, Sloan J. Eddleston ’04, enlisted friends as well as Masters Tom and Verena Conley to encourage people to take a REP-sponsored survey and to recycle...
...headsets of the four crew members. They were flying at nearly 30,000 ft. above western Iraq in a B-1B Lancer shortly before 3 p.m. last Monday. The message, from the controller aboard a nearby AWACs command plane, sent a thrill through the B-1 as Captain Sloan Hollis redirected the black, needle-nose plane toward Baghdad at 500 m.p.h. for an afternoon rendezvous with Saddam Hussein...
...engagement of the weekend also came in the Ocean State, where it sailed for the Moody Trophy at URI. The result—a seventh-place finish—was disappointing, but it was buoyed by a strong finish from Harvard’s B boat, captained by freshman Sloan Devlin and crewed by classmate Mallory Greimann. The duo managed to nab fifth place, helped largely by the second-place finish the tandem managed to post on each day of competition...
...when you start to smoke, how long and how much you smoke, and when you quit. By tracking the incidence of the disease in 18,172 men and women ages 50 to 69 who had been or still were heavy smokers, researchers at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center devised a mathematical model that predicts the likelihood that lung cancer will be diagnosed in a smoker within 10 years. You can find the model on the Web at www.mskcc.org...
...things that are not lung cancer. "In up to half of patients screened, the scan will show some lung scar or shadow that will require further evaluation or surgical biopsy, even though it will ultimately be deemed to be harmless," says Dr. Peter Bach of Memorial Sloan-Kettering. The best candidates for the scan, therefore, are those who already have the highest risk--and the most to gain...