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...project's self-volunteered guinea pigs don high-tech gear that monitors their circulatory, respiratory and nervous systems. With their face masks and unique watches that measure and record heart and pulse rates, they look like astronauts in training--an apt resemblance as it turns out. "If you go up in space for three weeks, stay in bed for three weeks or age 30 years," says Nadel, "the wasting that goes on in the muscles, bones and water volume is remarkably similar." The seniors in the program are so pleased by the immediate benefits of the assorted aerobic and muscle...
...Division for Emerging and other Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control (EMC), "in five days the Ebola diagnosis was confirmed, and the outbreak was nipped in the bud." The medical team had done its job by isolating the victims, providing health-care workers with basic sterile gear, like gowns and gloves, and staying on the scene until no new cases were evident...
...race for a new three-year auto contract shifted into high gear last week, when the United Auto Workers union chose Ford, currently the most labor-friendly of Detroit's Big Three employers, as the company it will bargain with first. The contract covering 400,000 autoworkers at the Big Three manufacturers expires this Saturday. The U.A.W. always zeroes in on one company in divide-and-conquer fashion, but in a break with four decades of tradition, the union has toned down its normally strident rhetoric and declined to set a strike deadline. Industry watchers expect the U.A.W. and Ford...
Harvard has put together a difficult non-conference schedule, taking on the likes of Utah State and nationally-ranked Rhode Island in the New England Invitational, which starts the weekend of September 13. The Ivy League schedule kicks into gear in October 4 with a game against Dartmouth...
Harvard has put together a difficult non-conference schedule, taking on the likes of Utah State and nationally-ranked Rhode Island in the New England Invitational, which starts the weekend of September 13. The Ivy League schedule kicks into gear in October with a game against Dartmouth October...