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Nine genetic locations prone to mis-coding were found to be strongly associated with early heart attack patients in a study co-authored by two Harvard Medical School professors and others in a report published in Nature Genetics last Sunday. The identification of the locations may make it easier to diagnose patients at risk, and co-author David M. Altshuler, a professor of genetics and medicine at Harvard Medical School, said that the paper provides “new biological clues.” Co-author Christopher J. O’Donnell, an HMS associate clinical professor, began collecting genetic...

Author: By Ellie Reilly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Genes Linked to Heart Attacks Found | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...Diamond says it now applies to the whole loan debacle and "any expert who tells someone who probably shouldn't take out a mortgage 'you'll be able to do it, no problem.'" There are a lot of financially "blind" people out there, and a lot of people mis-advised them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Financial Crisis: What Would the Talmud Do? | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

...government is of the people, by the people, and for the people,” Bush said. Republican Club President Colin J. Motley ’10 echoed Bush’s frustration with existing perceptions about his party. “Poverty and urban issues are often mis-characterized as issues that the Republican Party is not interested in,” he said. “We are committed to poverty reduction and urban issues.” Reverend Hamilton followed Bush’s speech with a discussion about his experiences as a pastor at the Roxbury...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Republicans Promote Community Programs | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

Donna Letzter, the theater director at West Aurora High School in Aurora, Ill., has put on ambitious shows in the past like Cats and Les Misérables, and last year she even figured out a way to get a helicopter to lift off the stage for a production of Miss Saigon. But that was kid stuff compared her challenge this spring: staging the nation's first licensed high school edition of Rent. Though the script had been pruned of most of the roughest material, this is still a musical in which most of the characters are either on drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bye Bye, Birdie. Hello, Rent | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...unseat Musharraf and that the U.S. was behind Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.Mr. Quraishi’s outrageous statements are not a new phenomenon: mouthpieces for collapsing dictators have frequently played their part in promoting propaganda and nonsense. Mohammad Saeed as-Sahaf (MSS), the Iraqi minister of (mis?)information, became famous for claiming in April of 2003 that coalition forces were “not even 100 miles from Baghdad. They are not anywhere; they are selling illusions to others.” Within two days, U.S. troops entered Baghdad. Baghdad was lost, Saddam Hussein was hanged...

Author: By Samad Khurram | Title: Repeating Is Believing | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

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