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...caught Cal with about 250 meters left and pulled ahead in the final 100 meters to win by nine tenths of a second. “They’re really strong people, people who have raced at senior world championships…even Olympians,” Crimson stroke Simon Gawlik said of the caliber of rowers at the regatta. “That’s a level of athlete that Harvard right now, at least, doesn’t have.”Harvard’s fifth place finish, nearly eleven seconds behind the leader...
North Korean leaders have long cited the year 2012 as being particularly significant. It will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, the nation's founder and Kim Jong Il's father and predecessor. Kim Jong Il, now 67 and ailing since a stroke last summer, is thought to be arranging his succession: analysts believe he wants to pass power to his youngest son, 26-year-old Kim Jong...
What's the appeal of being a deejay? For one, the occupation can stroke your ego. "To see everyone having a good time, to get a reaction from them, that's the thing I like," says Sean Williams, 29, who lost his postal service job in July and now deejays in the Bay Area (stage name: DJ Padd). "You can control everyone.' You can also pick up the basics in a month or two, and schools aren't ridiculously expensive: Rankin, for example, charges $600 for a month-long class in Chicago. A five-month intensive course at New York...
...Huntington’s work also took him beyond academia. In 1968, he advised then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey during his bid for the presidency. In 1977 and 1978, Huntington served as coordinator of security planning for the National Security Council under President Jimmy Carter. After suffering from a stroke in 2006, Huntington entered a succession of nursing facilities in Boston. He relocated the following summer to a facility on Martha’s Vineyard. —Staff writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
...collected to measure toxins, hormone levels, or genes. These observations over time allow for an in depth understanding of the reasons for health and risks for disease. A great advantage of cohort studies is that they enable scientists to study multiple diseases (for example heart diseases, cancer, stroke) and multiple risk factors (diet, exercise, air quality) over an individual’s lifetime...