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...chance to fail," says Bendandi. "If just one patient relapsed while receiving the vaccine, it would have been over. I would have needed a new job," he jokes. But the Italian-born physician is still working. In a few weeks he starts his new study, which is designed to test the vaccine's effectiveness in follicular lymphoma patients with an especially poor prognosis. Bendandi plans to administer the vaccine to participants until they relapse or die from a cause other than lymphoma. "This time," he says, "I'm going after a cure...
...Certainly there are times when there is an essay that seems much, much better than what a student would have been able to produce,” he said, citing the gap between essay quality and grades or test scores as indicators of this incongruity...
...Educational Testing Service (ETS) has scrapped plans to revise its popular examination for prospective graduate students, citing concerns about access to the test. The proposed revision of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) was slated to take effect in October. It would have tacked 90 minutes on to the two-and-a-half hour test and eliminated some question formats, including analogies. It would also have made cheating more difficult, since the test would only be administered 35 days a year, with a completely new test developed each time. The test is currently administered more than 250 times a year...
...another race under our belts.” Next week at the Knecht Cup, where the team will be facing the best boats in the lightweight field, the Black and White will take any race it can get. “This weekend is a pretty big test,” Kharrazi said. “We will be able to see pretty well where we are in the field.” —Staff writer Walter E. Howell can be reached at wehowell@fas.harvard.edu...
...well as using carbon dating and infrared analysis, Charlier employed the unusual technique of olfacation, or sniffing. In a blind test, two smell experts from French perfumeries Guerlain and Jean Patou whiffed samples of burnt wood, decomposed bones and skin, and noted the odors. "The smells weren't all horrible," says Sylvain Delacourte of Guerlain. "Some were pleasant and fragrant." The predominant scent, vanilla, indicated that the relics came from a body that had decomposed naturally; the organic compound vanillin is produced during this process. Set alight while tied to a stake (three times over, if legend...