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...most powerful and haunting, at once both metaphor and augury. It conjures up the crush of life's passage. More terrible, it often heralds life's end. For the humped back is often the most visible sign of osteoporosis, a progressive disease that leaves bones thin and brittle. Even so simple a motion as walking or sitting can collapse vertebrae and fracture wrists and hips. Those who suffer such breaks rarely recover their mobility. Many wind up in nursing homes. One- quarter die within six months of a hip fracture...
...QUESTION MARK’The state-of-the-art scientific facilities in Allston will be expensive, and some say they are wary that the University—already engaged in numerous construction projects in Cambridge—will stretch its resources too thin once it begins construction.A major capital campaign originally set to launch in 2006 was delayed last spring and is unlikely to begin before a new president is chosen, an acknowledgment that major donors will be reluctant to commit resources without knowing who will be at the helm.“It is traditional to have conducted...
...There’s just so many great characters that we can do a different kind of episode every week without wearing thin,” Jean told IGN.com in 2003. “We work hard trying to do what people have grown to love without repeating ourselves...
...friend and fellow Cabot House tutor.Osborne said that he may take next year off from Harvard in order to write about his climb—and his decision to turn back. He says the book will be similar to Jon Krakauer’s bestseller “Into Thin Air,” an account of a climber’s experience in the deadliest season for Mount Everest.The current season marked the second deadliest ever after the one chronicled by Krakauer, with 10 climbers confirmed dead so far.But to Osborne, the greatest challenge was not the physical danger...
...during the Nazi occupation of Hungary. Still, the return on such a short investment of time is an unforgettable tale of a mother's courage in the face of nightmarish cruelty. Along the way, it explores the precarious nature of religious faith, which for some can be stretched too thin for suspension...