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...Drug Companies. A better drug, she notes, could be defined broadly: fewer side effects, easier to take, longer lasting, more effective in a subset of patients. Such a policy would not only speed vital information to doctors, it would also spur drug companies to focus on creating truly novel medications rather than minor variations on existing themes, what many researchers call "me too" drugs. "The pace of innovation has been slow," says Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, chairman of the psychiatry department at Columbia University Medical Center and lead author of the study...
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of writer Ayn Rand. Her first—and best—novel, “The Fountainhead,” published in 1943, tells the story of an independent-minded architect, Howard Roark, who rebels against the collectivist ethos of New Deal America. The sex scenes between Roark and his on-again-off-again lover, journalist Dominique Francon, are so violent that Roark could probably be charged with rape today. And, post-9/11, readers may be less tolerant towards Roark, who has a disturbing propensity to blow up architecturally...
...novel “Indecision” (Random House) by Benjamin Kunkel ’97 taps into the vague terror that hits many Harvard upperclassmen after the bright-eyed optimism of freshman year begins to fade. In the person of Dwight Wilmerding, Kunkel spars with the “What should I do with my life?” question, indulging in semi-tongue-in-cheek references to German philosophers (in German), extended drug-induced hallucinations in South America, and an excess of anthropologists eager to offer social insight. “Indecision” is appropriate both...
...hears young Agu, whose family is caught in the grip of a civil war that strikes an undefined West African country. Among flames and cries, the young boy, protagonist of the debut novel of Uzodinma Iweala ’04, “Beasts of No Nation,” naively runs towards a group of rebels dressed in rags. Caught in a trap of destiny, he has to choose between a brutal death or a brutal life. He chooses life and finds himself metamorphosed into one of those thousands of child soldiers dressed in rags, carrying guns heavier than...
...Iweala’s novel is not all about facts. The story itself is almost drowned out by a cacophony of screams and gun shots rendered by omnipresent onomatopoeias, portraying the violence of the war as well as the confusion in the boy’s mind. Throughout the story, Agu is torn between wanting to be a “good soldier” and not wanting...