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...diabetes,” Doria said. “We found that the greater effect was due to a synergism between the genetic variant and hyperglycemia,” Doria said. “Diabetic individuals who had both factors had a risk of coronary artery disease up to eight times higher than that of diabetic subjects who have neither factor.” The study’s findings, while at an early stage, await to be confirmed by even more research. “We need to see if the data can be generalized...
...time at Harvard. Following his freshman season in 2006, he took home the Ivy League Rookie of the Year. This year he was unanimously named to the all-Ivy First Team—his third straight year on that list. Akpan is the only player from the Ancient Eight to reach the semi-final stage for the Hermann Trophy. His 26 points this season was a conference-best.After being named a semifinalist last season, the Missouri Athletic Club put Akpan on their watch list before the 2008 season began.But despite having a season that would have pleased nearly any other player...
...Antonietti vented to a friend, who told her story to Columbia Business School student and entrepreneur Michael Kopko. Eight months later, Kopko has launched a website he hopes can help college and graduate students who are feeling the loan crunch as well as kids as young as middle schoolers. On GradeFund.com, students can upload their transcripts each semester and earn money for every A. More than 750 students have signed up since the site went live Nov. 15, and the number is growing fast. (See pictures of the evolution of the college dorm...
...record against the Crimson? After all, Siedlecki is hardly the only coach to suffer at the hands of the Fightin’ Tim Murphys in the greatest modern era of Harvard football. The Crimson’s current run of seven-win seasons—which at eight is the longest since 1911, and the longest in Ivy League history—has come at the expense of virtually every other Ivy League school, good coaches or not. Yale joins Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, and Cornell among the list of Ivy schools that has lost at least seven of the last...
Cholera is one of the simplest diseases to prevent or cure. To kill the cholera bacterium in water, just boil it. To treat the chronic diarrhea and potentially fatal dehydration that results from cholera, take a liter of water, a teaspoon of salt, eight teaspoons of sugar, mix, and drink; or, for patients too weak to drink, administer intravenously...