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...agenda is a handpicked team of weathered foreign service officers who have spent their careers troubleshooting and cutting deals in some of the most remote capitals of the world--the State Department's Hellhole Gang. "They've all been tested on the front lines," Rice told TIME. "I tend to like people around me who served in really difficult posts. It's a mark of character. It's a mark of toughness. It's a mark of being able to operate under difficult circumstances and not lose your perspective...
...rapists are men—it would seem to me that rape is a man’s issue,” says former Strong Women, Strong Girls Director Tracy E. Nowski ’07. “When you talk about gendered things on campus, women tend to show up. It’s hugely misleading, because obviously ‘gender’ involves both men and women. But all these terms, sex, sexuality, gender, are aligned with women...
...study the lab had conducted a few years ago, the team found that species with smaller genomes tend to have higher metabolisms...
It’s no news that Harvard students tend to be a bit narcissistic. For centuries, our egos have been as large as our endowment. But apparently, we’re now more self-obsessed than ever and, luckily, so is everyone else. According to a recent study by five psychologists reported in last week’s Boston Globe, today’s college students have a higher opinion of themselves than those of any previous generation. When asked to agree or disagree with statements like, “If I ruled the world, it would...
...decisive factor: pre-menopausal women were significantly more likely to experience relapses after surgery than post-menopausal women were. His new paper applies this theory to another apparent trend—the high mortality rates among African-American women afflicted with breast cancer. African-American women, Retsky found, tend to get breast cancer at a younger age than their Caucasian counterparts, exposing them to the negative effects of breast cancer surgery that he has theorized. Retsky’s controversial hypothesis linking breast cancer relapses to surgery caused a moderate stir in the scientific community at the time...