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...later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court as unconstitutional on the grounds that a state can not conduct foreign policy. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...Ethnicity as Destiny Of all the things that can determine a woman's chances of surviving breast cancer, perhaps one of the most powerful is the simple matter of race. Most women in the U.S. are of European ancestry, and the majority of those who develop breast cancer are struck by a type that is partly stimulated by exposure to estrogen. This is one reason the disease usually hits in middle age, after 25 or so years of the monthly hormonal surges associated with ovulation and menstruation. Since the cancer relies on estrogen to grow, drugs like tamoxifen and Herceptin...
...that theme - the possibility of dramatic transformation through artifice - struck a personal chord. At 18, he entered the Art Academy of Taiwan as an acting student, and found himself changed from a shy, uncertain teen into a star. Only after moving to the U.S. in 1978 did he switch to directing. His English, he realized, wasn't good enough for him to succeed in America as an actor...
...years, breast cancer was seen as a disease that predominantly struck white, well-to-do women in the developed world--and the fact is, it did. But the face of breast cancer is changing. The disease is on the march in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere, with rates rising dramatically, as much as sevenfold, over the past decade. By 2020, 70% of global breast-cancer cases will occur in the developing world. Part of the reason for the change is better sanitation and control of infectious diseases, which have extended life spans in low- and middle-income countries...
...faculty] member isn’t entitled to tenure, but a process consistent with Harvard’s rules and regulations,” says Berkowitz, who is now a professor at George Mason University School of Law. “One question worth asking is whether Harvard has struck the right balance between two separate goods in the tenure process: transparency and accountability on the one hand,” he says, “and confidentiality on the other...