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Never heard of it? Neither have most doctors. But major new health threats don't usually announce themselves with press releases. A quarter of a century ago, the world learned about the AIDS epidemic because a health bureaucrat noticed an uptick in prescriptions for treatment of a rare pneumonia. In 1912--more than a half-century before the Surgeon General's report--a New York physician chronicled "a decided increase" in lung cancer, which was considered rare at the time, and suggested that cigarettes might be the cause...
...heard about Summers’ remarks and could not comment this weekend. The CID received six times more applications than it could fund this year, according to an e-mail sent to students who were denied funding. The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs also saw an uptick in applications this year; about two-thirds of its applicants must look elsewhere for funding. But not all of the funding sources for travel grants received more applications this year. Martha H. Homer, director of student employment for the sizable Harvard College Research Program (HCRP), wrote in an e-mail that the number...
...Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears, Tom Lutz writes that "weeping often occurs at precisely those times when we are least able to fully verbalize complex and overwhelming emotions." We cry when words aren't enough, which suggests that any uptick in public tears may be proportional to a loss in our ability to articulate what we feel...
...that can be tied to temperature increases--as opposed to population movement, lapses in mosquito control or the spread of drug-resistant parasites--is a matter of debate. But because each year there are at least 300 million cases accounting for more than 1 million deaths, even a small uptick in the spread or severity of malaria could be devastating...
...away the equivalent of a whole bottle of wine in a night, is practiced at least once a week by 36% of British men ages 16 to 24 and by 27% of women. It leaves a trail of social debris--crime, fatal accidents, unsafe sex, date rapes, even an uptick in liver disease among those in their 20s. In places like Croydon, where the economy gets a big boost from vertical-drinking palaces that can compete for customers as far as 50 miles away, city centers have become weekend no-go zones for the sober. Says Commander Chris Allison...