September 29, 2005

Postponed by baseball John Brownstein (right), Kenneth Mandl, and Ben Reis found that Bostonians prefer to watch exciting Red Sox games than to receive attention at local hospital emergency rooms. (Staff photo T.J. Kirkpatrick/Harvard News Office) Full story

HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

New cancer detector developed
It's fast, sensitive, and selective

Stem Cell Institute gets inaugural NIH five-year grant
Scadden group gets award for research on microenvironments

The colonial imperative
How colonies grow: Ants, termites, and us

ER takes backseat to ball games
Games outscore medical emergencies

HMS Scholars in Medicine buys valuable time
Funds provided for family and research

Chinese salt evidence spared from flood
Site revealed earliest salt manufacturing in China

Group seeks energy savings
Shares 'best practices' to conserve

Ig Nobels set to celebrate dumb smarts
Mini-opera to share stage with Nobel laureates, 24-second lectures