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...sight of an elderly person with a stoop sets people to wondering, "Will that happen to me?" Up to now, there has been no way to answer that question. Though osteoporosis afflicts about 25 million Americans, most of them women, the disease offers no early symptoms. Usually it is not diagnosed until after age 50, when a victim suffers a fracture. But that may soon change. Last week a team of Australian scientists reported that they have identified a single gene that appears to put people at very high risk of developing osteoporosis...
...Right” that are multiplying on magazine covers. But it is as much a tribute to the tactical skill of New Right organizers who have mobilized the support of fundamentalists and other right-leaning, formerly apolitical groups through the use of national computer address banks. The answer for 1984 is simple: the left must organize itself to counteract this new force, using similar computerized-mailing tactics if necessary. More important, liberals who feel the nation has abandoned them should look at the history of the election itself and its candidates before they leave the country. The 1980 presidential election...
...answer is a qualified “yes.” Harvard is planning to make Allston a center for cutting-edge science, and Allston will likely become a profoundly important place for scholarship in other disciplines as well. Perhaps there’s not really more to be done than build as much housing and cultural facilities as possible, which Harvard seems to be making a good-faith effort to do. “It’s something that always need to be considered and calls for us to strike the appropriate balance between creating the future...
...obsessions; I think it’s self-reliance. Emerson argues that we should be judged by the work we do. He warns us against impersonal, distant causes that drain the force from our lives and encourages us to devote ourselves instead to experiences in which we can best answer the call of our genius. For many students at Harvard, extracurriculars provide exactly this sort of opportunity—an environment that grants us both the freedom to explore and create unrestrained, and to make a concrete difference during the course of our four years on campus. However, there...
...answer, perhaps, is that Abbas believes that adopting the prisoners' plan will negate Israel's claim that it has no Palestinian negotiating partner, making it more difficult for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to move ahead with plans to unilaterally redraw Israel's borders. But there's clearly a domestic political agenda, too: The grassroots-level Fatah warlords on whose support Abbas is increasingly dependent have, ever since they lost the January election to Hamas, agitated for an aggressive strategy to topple the new government...