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...generation of molecular biologists is starting to give that old adage a decidedly high-tech twist. By combining the latest discoveries in human genetics with a deeper understanding of the hundreds of compounds found in food, investigators have begun to tease apart some of the more complex interactions between your diet and your DNA. In the process, they hope eventually to give consumers more personalized advice about what to eat and drink to stave off heart disease, cancer and other chronic conditions of aging. "We are trying to put more science behind the nutrition," says Jose Ordovas, a geneticist...
...page operator's voice, clearer than usual, would repeat "code blue, Six West" through the enormous hospital complex. The code team residents would drop everything - being in the middle of an operation the single exception - and run at full speed to the floor location. Chief residents had keys that could instantly hijack big elevators jammed full of people; younger residents galloped up or down the stairs...
...Here pumping the chest, inflating the lungs, filling the blood vessels and starting the heart were the immediate and technically demanding needs. It was only when the medicine was unknown to us or very complex - renal failure cases, rare diseases or cancer patients on weird experimental chemo - that we looked to the medical residents for help...
...noticed pretty widely. I think we’ve been able to do some very important things these last years by eliminating family contributions by any family with income under $80,000, by getting underway 20 football fields’ worth of laboratory space for our new sciences complex, by launching Harvard’s efforts in Allston, by breaking down some of the barriers, financial and intellectual, between Harvard’s schools. I’m proud of what I’ve been able to do. I’m proud of what’s happened...
...believe that Hilary Clinton is frosty and that Osama bin Laden crashed planes into the World Trade Center not because I had any direct experience with the former first lady or September 11, but because it appears that way on TV.In other words, because the world is too complex and broad for personal experience, we make use of unstable and inaccurate proxies. Seemingly solid facts, thoughtless orthodoxies considered True, are largely—although not entirely—a matter of perspective. Which makes Jon Stewart’s denunciation of Crossfire wishful thinking. He wants networks to relay...