Two N otre Dame students w ere robbed at gunpoint Monday night in their Portage Avenue home, bound and locked In a closet, and relieved o f a *1400 stereo and $400 in cash. According to Michael McSally, a senior, tw o gunm en apparently en ­ tered the w rong house looking for cocaine. The in truders held McSally and a friend at gunpoint for 40 m inutes while ransacking the house, ending their s...

When Milt McColl, MD, decided to finish his residency after nearly 30 years away from clinical medicine, he didn’t expect to be back at Stanford, where he played football and earned his bachelor’s and medical degrees. That, he said, was a stroke of luck, or what he said his father calls the moment “when preparation meets opportunity.” McColl, 58, admits that brand of luck determined most of his...

As pressure increasingly builds on public and charitable sources of research funding, there is growing concern that money from the pharmaceutical industry may come with pitfalls for unwary researchers, Britain's science academy, the Royal Society, concluded last month. Royal Society members, who held their annual alumni meeting, fear that the government's drive to increase university-industry c...

inhibit progression of joint destruction. He said that TNF inhibitors are unique in their ability to do that but added that uste kinumab is unproven in PsA. Although one pilot study indicated a degree of response,1 “the jury is still out,” he claimed. In his own experience, he said that ustekinumab did not perform as well as the TNF blockers—or methotrexate— against PsA. Regarding cardiovascula...

The following well-known text from the Babylonian Talmud (redacted ca. 600 C.E.) has had an enormous influence on scholarly accounts of the relation between divine authority and human authority in talmudic rabbinic Judaism. [Regarding a certain kind of oven, R. Eliezer rules that it is ritually pure and the sages rule that it is ritually impure.] It was taught: On that day, R. Eliezer responded...

they s tream ed o ff a c h a rte r f l ig h t at A ndrew s A ir Force Base outside Washington. They appeared tired but most sm iled as they le ft the plane, waving to the greeting party. Relatives in the crowd held up signs, including One that said, “ Daddy, Daddy, I Need You.” Most o f the g roup c a rr ie d luggage; m any w ore casual clothes and were ill-p repared for the chilly evening weat...

Short men can wear long ties and tap dancers can be serious schol­ ars, Professor James McKenna said in his “Last Lecture” Wednesday. McKenna, Notre Dame’s Edmund P. Joyce C.S.C. chair in anthropolo­ gy, shared the most important les­ sons he has learned through his years as a student, husband, father and friend in the first of a series of lectures planned by student gov­ ernment. M cK enna spo...