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...member to be awarded this prize. He will receive a 100,000-euro ($137,400) prize, along with a replica of “The Hand of God,” a sculpture created by Swedish artist Carl Milles. Lerner will also be honored at an award ceremony in Sweden...
...same, society and science sometimes seem to fall into dangerous cycles. Epigenetics smacks disturbingly of the horrific days in Soviet Russia when the mad geneticist Lysenko held sway over Russian science. I also have questions regarding sample size, causality and method. In my opinion, a closed population in northern Sweden does not constitute a control group. John Goldenberg, ST PAUL DE VENCE, FRANCE...
That's the question that an international group of researchers from the U.S., Sweden and Iceland set out to answer when they launched the largest study ever to examine the specific effect of cancer diagnosis on suicide risk. Researchers analyzed data gathered between 1979 and 2004 on 342,000 men who were recently told they had prostate cancer. Compared to death rates among a similar group of men without cancer, men who received a cancer diagnosis were 90% more likely to commit suicide in the following year. (See how to prevent illness...
...what the club has planned for its 10th anniversary, we called President Henry S. Xie '11, who spoke to us over Skype from his home in Sweden...
...problem doesn't appear to be limited to Denmark, either. In neighboring Sweden, which has a Somali population of about 15,000, authorities say al-Shabab is recruiting Somalis to attend militant training camps in their homeland. Patrik Peter, a spokesman for the Säpo security police force, says about 20 men have left Sweden for Somalia in recent years, "a handful of which were found dead after acts of violence." (Read a brief history of al-Shabab...