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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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"Early on, heart disease researchers were really focused on elite white men, on the stressful lives that they were living, and that were sedentary. Obviously that was not all Americans in the 1920s and 30s. There were a lot of people who were left out of that story," said Anne Pollock, assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. "With the progress and democracy that has happened through social justice movements, those notions about heart disease risk have also expanded." Source: Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC, March 10, 2013
