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Ask American women what disease they're most scared of, and the vast majority will answer without hesitation: breast cancer. They may even cite the ominous statistic that 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer at some point in her life. But what most women don't realize is...
By focusing on who these people are inside and their scholarly accomplishments, rather than leading an article with the incidental fact that when they were appointed they happened to be the first of a particular group to hold a position, you would be celebrating their lives, rather than reducing them?...
As a member of the administrative staff with professional and personal commitments outside of Harvard, I have mixed emotions to Judd B. Kessler’s recent column (“The 168-Hour Week,” April 8). My knee-jerk reaction to the statistic that students spend...
The NAACP presents gun violence as a racial issue, adducing the statistic that African-American teenagers were 16 times more likely than white teens to die from guns between 1990 and 1998. But gun violence is an issue that affects all communities, and it is a major mistake to define...
While other countries were scrambling for solutions, China continued to withhold data on the effects of the disease that has plagued it since November. Decoding SARS is already like trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle in the dark, say international health workers. China's opacity, when it has about...