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Some experts believe boys are less likely to report the harmful side effects of a collision--headaches, dizziness--than girls are and that could account for the gender discrepancy. "Culturally, we teach boys that they have to be tough," says Dawn Comstock, an Ohio State University pediatrics professor and an author of the Athletic Training study. "They have to play through the pain...
...graduating class of Harvard’s Divinity School on July 15, 1838. As Gura incisively observes, “Emerson’s most radical proposition...was his interpretation of Christ’s mission.” Even more absorbing, however, is Gura’s account of the intellectual “brouhaha” that followed Emerson’s address, which the author describes as “a studied insult to the assembled clergy” that “rubbed salt into the raw wounds from the debate over miracles...
...first become interested in semiotics [the study of symbols and signs]? Ramiro Gomez, BERLIN To have my feet on two levels - one on high culture, and the other on low culture - I was looking to find an approach able to take into account both aspects of our cultural life. For me, that was semiotics...
...which one can only say, Ha ha ha. A recent study of Arkansas, conducted by the nonpartisan Urban Institute, estimated that immigrants there pay more in Social Security and sales taxes than they cost in social services like health care and education. That doesn't begin to take into account the economic impact of the hard work and entrepreneurial energy that illegal immigrants bring to the society. To be sure, there is a need for greater border security in a time of terrorism. But any candidate who claims to be able to shut down the border simply isn't telling...
...Peter Foster, the tribunal's U.N. public affairs officer, said that Duch's landmark hearing evoked for some Cambodians attending the court a sense of wonderment that the Khmer Rouge leadership was finally being called to account. "After so long not believing it would ever happen, it took until this moment,? he says. ?Now they see that there is no turning back...