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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Middle-class Americans are invited to submit questions and ideas through the task force's website, but while tickets for the Philadelphia meeting were distributed to labor and environmental groups, the task force did not accept questions from the audience. "If Biden and his team want to go into this [middle-class issue]," says Daniel Morris, communications director of the Drum Major Institute, a think tank that analyzes middle-class policy issues, "they're going to need to talk to real members of the middle class. There's no substitute for immediate intimate interaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Middle-Class Task Force Has No Middle Class | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...weekly one-hour ACT sessions (along with an extra one or two ACT sessions with their parents present). During the sessions, the therapists emphasized that the kids should go out and do what they truly loved even if they were hurting that day - in other words, that they should accept rather than try to avoid their chronic pain. To shift kids away from focusing only on alleviating their symptoms, therapists discussed how their pain was not caused by a harmful disease or injury and how previous strategies (such as taking painkillers) had not worked. Kids were encouraged instead to notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk Therapy for Kids' Pain: Better than Pills? | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard and the Allston community, boosting our science programs, improving infrastructure, and supporting Allston’s economy. One further point made in the letter deserves particular attention. The university must be more transparent about the state of its finances if the Harvard community and our neighbors are to accept the host of cuts being made...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Some Explaining to Do | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...community but also prompted two Harvard professors to threaten to leave, angered the unions involved in construction and custodial work, and left all involved in a state of clouded confusion about the reality of Harvard’s financial position. If the university expects those affected by this to accept the drastic cuts in so many sectors, they must provide better evidence that these cuts are explicitly necessary...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Some Explaining to Do | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee—created in January 2007 to oversee interdisciplinary science across Harvard’s schools—will no longer accept seed grant proposals for cross-departmental research this spring, University Provost and committee chair Steven E. Hyman said Friday...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Science Funding Delayed | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

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