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Dench: Notes? All the time. On being taller...
...First they had to be sure there would be no medical harm: removing breast buds, Gunther says, is a much less invasive procedure than a mastectomy. The hormone treatment was commonly used 40 years ago on lanky teenage girls who didn't want to get any taller. "The main risk," Gunther says, "is of thrombosis or blood clot, which is a risk in anybody taking estrogen. It's hard to assess in a young child because no one this young has been treated with estrogen." There were very few reports of thrombosis among the teenage patients, he says...
...treatment is nowhere near as risky and disfiguring as amputation, Diekema retorts; it just accelerates a natural process by which the body stops growing. Parents of short children give them growth hormones for social more than medical reasons, he notes. How can it be O.K. to make someone "unnaturally" taller but not smaller? To warnings of a slippery slope, Gunther tilts the logic the other way: "The argument that a beneficial treatment should not be used because it might be misused is itself a slippery slope," he says. "If we did not use therapies available because they could be misused...
...players taller than 6-7, but they compensated against Cusworth with an aggressive physical style that, at times, appeared to employ more elbows than defensive rotations...
...oriented blueprint. Sullivan has brought his squad back to the league mean in response to last year’s failure, attempting to find success by catering to the dominant Ivy trend. He recruited four guards, all 6’4 or shorter, and just two frontcourt players, neither taller than 6’7, swinging the balance back to the perimeter for the foreseeable future. The nucleus of this year’s team has also been transferred from the frontcourt to the backcourt, as Harvard will live and die with the tandem of sophomore point guard Drew Housman...