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...went there on a Wednesday evening, and the place was packed with students and families who were having a jolly time eating out of the john. "It's very progressive and irreverent, like a practical joke," says junior high school teacher Chen Kin-hsiang, who went because her students raved about it. "It's a little gross when you see other people eat," she says, "but when you're eating, you don't notice it, 'cause you're hungry and the aroma is appetizing." Smell is one poop-like quality the chef does without. (See pictures of China...
Frances R. Cardullo—the owner of Cardullo’s Gourmet Shoppe whose passion for food, travel, and the Red Sox made her an icon in Harvard Square—died last Wednesday at the age of 68. Born in Winchester, Mass., Cardullo—who underwent a gender reassignment surgery recently and identified as female—grew up in Cambridge and attended Tufts University. She earned a flying license at an early age and worked as a contract pilot for two decades before returning to take over the store, which had been founded by her father...
Sheila Bair, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), is working hard to reassure everyone that her banks, all 8,305 of them, are safe. Repeating her familiar mantra Wednesday on the CBS Morning Show, Bair said of FDIC-protected accounts, "Nobody's ever lost a penny of insured deposits...
...Thomas J. Lynch, Jr. Now Lynch, the chief of hematology and oncology at the Mass. General Cancer Center, will leave Harvard after 23 years to become the director of the Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief of the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale announced Wednesday. “They gave me the opportunity to take some of the lessons I learned in the phenomenal success of MGH and apply it in a setting like Yale,” Lynch said. “It was an opportunity that was irresistible.” He said...
Harvard Medical School Professor Edward E. Harlow was awarded $100,000 last Wednesday by the Melanoma Research Foundation to fund his work developing therapeutic approaches to treat melanoma, a skin cancer that kills thousands of Americans each year. The award—the Established Investigator Grant—will support Harlow’s research for two years. Harlow was one of five to be selected from an applicant pool of 60 for this award after a scientific advisory committee looked over all the proposals and chose the most promising ones, according to the Tim Turnham, the foundation?...