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...running joke goes, we go to school in Boston or Cambridge when asked, but on the other, everyone knows we’re dying to further specify if the point is pressed. Nowhere is it more apparent than on the Internet, however, that at the very least a peculiar subset of our students, alumni, and admirers are truly remarkable practitioners of the art of self-promotion.Wikipedia is by no means the only example. For years, a college admissions bulletin board called Autoadmit.com, which unofficially spun off from the Princeton Review website, has been plagued with a collection of colorful characters. Each...
...BIDIL It was the first drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration that comes with a race-specific label: FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ONLY. When researchers first tested BiDil as a treatment for congestive heart failure, its makers found it had little benefit over a placebo. But in a subset of subjects, who were of African-American descent, the drug, taken along with other medications, reduced deaths from the condition 43% and lowered the number of hospital admissions almost 40%. Researchers say it won't be the last ethnically driven drug on pharmacy shelves; as the genetic basis of diseases...
...very intelligent and very productive colleague,” Markowitz said. “I have great respect for him.”Manne’s modus operandi throughout his professional work was to create long-term, complex economic models. These models relied heavily on linear programming, a subset of mathematics, to determine optimal decision-making in a world of scarce resources. He modeled, for example, how oil shortages would affect both the world as a whole and individual economies 100 years into the future. His models are still used today.Although his early models were primarily concerned with agriculture...
...Resource Efficiency Program, a subset of the GCI, trains students to educate their peers about environmental issues...
...Council also elected member and Physics Department Chair John Huth to the Docket Committee—a subset of the Faculty Council that prepares the agenda for each full Faculty meeting and presents the Council’s business at those meetings—to replace Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, who is on sick leave this semester...