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Tragic news broke today that Harvard Square has completed its slow turn toward gentrification with the impending shuttering of Herrell's ice-cream store on Dunster street. The Crimson's Athena Jiang reports that the owner cited rising food costs, sky high rent, and of course, JP Licks for their mounting financial woes...
Many oncologists agree that older men - especially those over age 70 - are prime candidates for a watchful-waiting approach to treatment because prostate cancer is often a slow-growing disease that produces few or no symptoms and does not affect a man's quality of life after diagnosis. It is often referred to as a disease patients die with, rather than of. In Lu-Yao's study, men diagnosed with prostate cancer were up to five times more likely to die within 10 years from a non-prostate-related cause...
...this point we've already been given several pleasantly familiar Brownian treats. Langdon has already flashed us his trademark Mickey Mouse watch ("I wear it to remind me to slow down and take life less seriously"), and we've gotten a taste of his freakish memory, his crippling claustrophobia and his rueful skepticism. We've been reminded of Brown's taste for ritual violence - there's a touch of Thomas Harris about his writing. We've even been introduced to a lonely, violent fanatic with weird skin. His name is Mal'akh instead of Silas, and instead of being...
...meetings with the National Economic Council and with President Barack Obama now in the rearview mirror, Stein has returned to his research and the slow, methodical pace of academic life. He will be teaching an undergraduate course on the financial crisis next semester, he says, and he will be taking care to ensure that the course consists of more than just his own “war stories.” But he’s not entirely free of nostalgia. It was “unbelievably exciting,” Stein says, recalling his government experience recently to Crimson...
...Station fire in Angeles National Forest burned more than 100,000 acres (40,500 hectares), threatened thousands of homes and killed two firefighters in the dry heat of late summer. The stillness kept the flames from spreading quickly--a climatologist called it the "Jabba the Hutt fire," big and slow--but left the smoke to choke Los Angeles. By Sept. 2 firefighters had begun to bring the blaze under control, aided by cooler and more humid air, but they know the year is likely to bring plenty more conflagrations...