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Since Kate Riedl’s documentary “The Man Who Saved a Million Brains” aired on Australia’s ABC channel in 2005, the country has seen a huge spike??75 percent—in iodized salt sales. Riedl’s film chronicles Professor Cres Eastman’s fight against Iodine Deficiency Disorder, a disease that can cause retardation, deafness, and skeletal and superficial deformation. Riedl’s will be one of 15 contemporary documentaries screening in Cambridge this weekend as part of the United Nations Association Traveling Film...

Author: By Nina L. Vizcarrondo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UN Film Festival Spotlights Crucial World Issues | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano, said he was uncertain whether the recent “spike?? in criminal activity was unusual for Harvard Yard in the summer...

Author: By Ryan J. Kuo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Attempted Thefts Strike Summer School Dorms | 7/25/2003 | See Source »

...effective in keeping the city’s seniors safe during the heat—as the city had seen no significant increase in the number of medical emergencies in its senior population—O’Connor said the city has seen a “spike?? in the medical emergencies in its homeless alcoholic population...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Excessive heat warning' from Weather Service | 8/10/2001 | See Source »

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