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...Boyko ’05, a research assistant for Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser in the department’s Cognitive Evolutionary Laboratory, led the examination that spanned a 14-year period in England’s Premiership soccer league. He found that the fans do indeed spur teams on to victory at home games—but they do so by influencing the referees rather than the players. “People assume that most, if not all of their home advantage is that as fans, they go to the stadium and cheer and make their team play...
...Researchers have wrung other kinds of information out of cancer cells, including the way they spur the formation of blood vessels, which nourish their growth. Avastin, approved in 2004, is the first drug to throw a wrench into the process by suppressing a tumor's ability to recruit vascular growth factors. As with many of the newer therapies, doctors have found that it works best as part of a cocktail of cancer drugs...
...consideration. Frequently, the top Oscar has gone to films of social or political sentiment, from The Life of Emile Zola and Mrs. Miniver to Dances with Wolves and Braveheart. In 2005 the Christian right's attacks on the mercy-killing plot of Million Dollar Baby may have been the spur for the Oscars that went to the film and its star, Hilary Swank...
...generation that finally frees America from the tyranny of oil. We can harness homegrown, alternative fuels like ethanol and spur the production of more fuel-efficient cars. We can set up a system for capping greenhouse gases. We can turn this crisis of global warming into a moment of opportunity for innovation, and job creation, and an incentive for businesses that will serve as a model for the world. Let's be the generation that makes future generations proud of what we did here...
...press office said in a statement concerning Sherley’s tenure case.Sherley contends that racism was a factor in not only his tenure decision, but also his treatment at MIT since he arrived.“I hope that what is happening at MIT will spur discussion at Harvard and other universities about how processes like tenure enable racism,” Sherley said yesterday. Sherley graduated from Harvard College in 1980 with a degree in biological sciences and said that the lack of tenured minority professors is a problem that pervades many top-tier academic institutions...