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Revolutionary Fodder
Out of its two sites - one in a very low-income neighbourhood - The Stop offers an array of services and initiatives, including several community gardens and kitchens, after-school cooking and gardening programs, a farmers' market, community advocacy training, as well as a nutrition and support program for new and expectant mothers. Ryerson University's Centre for Studies in Food Security focuses on gender as a main factor in food-related issues, ryerson.ca/foodsecurity Karin Kkwer and Maya of Little City Farm, an urban homestead and eco-friendly bed and breakfast in the heart of Kitchener, Ontario, stay busy with workshops, sustainability projects and natural herbal products. littlecityfarm.ca Catherine Cyr Crunching Kids WHAT would you rather be: \"someone who composts\" or a \"soil power transformer\"? [...] rough country would be livestock pasture, while prairies would grow grain.
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A magical gift of adventure; Raise a goblet to the learned gnome, Gary Gygax, who turned a generation of bookish adolescents into heroes who vanquished the mundanity of life
If you grew up in the window between Vietnam and video games, you probably remember Gygax's jewel-shaped dice, his Byzantine numerical tables, his jargon (dungeon master, armour class, experience points), and his lack of self-consciousness.
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The instinct to become overweight
Barrett, also an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School, hatched the idea for her book from her clinical work, which has increasingly involved patients hoping to lose weight and those struggling with eating disorders.
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He trolls genome for cancer clues
Through the use of advanced computing techniques and by mining data from the human genome project, Garraway and his colleagues are trying to identify the exact genes that mutate in specific cancers and combine those profiles with traditional lab experiments.
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She uses dentistry to help fight abuse
\"Dentistry is the front line,\" said [LESLIE HALPERN], who practices at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Brigham and Women's Hospital. \"If you look at the injuries to victims of domestic violence, the most common are to the head, neck, and face,\" more than 75 percent, in fact, according to the Massachusetts Dental Society. In addition to treating those wounds, Halpern has helped develop a short questionnaire that can be administered to patients to find out whether they have been abused. The questionnaire asks patients standard questions, such as \"Have you ever been hit by your partner?\" and \"Do you feel safe in your relationship?\" But since victims are often unwilling to talk about abuse, it also poses questions that are less direct, such as: \"Is there tension in your relationship?\" Halpern believes that healthcare providers often miss signs of domestic violence because they're too rushed or because they're not trained to spot them. \"Sometimes, they don't see the forest for the trees,\" she said. \"That's why it's so important to educate them in identification and prevention.\"
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She took city job to bridge gaps in care
\"Disparity is a complicated issue,\" said [Barbara Ferrer], 51. It's a social ill as much as a medical one, since health is inextricably linked to wealth and to education. Ferrer says that racism, too, is a direct factor in causing chronic stress among minorities, \"wearing down the body parts\" and causing increased rates of, for example, premature births among black women. \"She doesn't have a top-down, we-know-best approach,\" says Dr. Nancy Norman, medical director of the city's health commission. \"She's effective because she's got an ability to put her finger on the pulse and know what's happening in communities.\" \"The idea that you don't have an equal chance at life when you're born is deeply troubling,\" she says. Ferrer believes a solution can be achieved with a \"life course\" approach. That means helping entire generations of babies, girls, and mothers have good health, so that their babies will thrive in turn.
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He finds optimism at the end of life
There's a lot of noise in medicine about the fight against cancer and a \"race for the cure.\" The reality, says Dr. [BOB BUXBAUM], associate clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School's Palliative Care Program, is that \"the death rate is 100 percent.\" Mortality can only, at best, be delayed - whether from cancer or anything else. So Buxbaum has devoted himself to palliative care, meaning he helps make a patient's life better once that life is coming to an end. \"I didn't realize how exciting it would be,\" he said. \"Geriatric medicine is a growth field. As the population ages, it's increasing by huge numbers.\" Even so, Buxbaum sees a crisis in spending, particularly on hospice care, of which he is a fervent supporter. \"Bob is a visionary,\" said Dr. Mark Yurkofsky, chief of Harvard Vanguard's Palliative Care and Home Visit and Extended Care program. \"He was the first person in our group to identify the chronic need for better palliative care services. He's even gotten insurance plans to expand their benefits for it. He's able to see the big picture.\"
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