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Depression is one of the dark demons of adolescence. Up to 1 in 12 American teenagers is affected, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and three times as many will experience depression at some point by age 18. Studies show that at least 20% of teenagers with clinical depression will go on to develop chronic cases that will haunt them throughout adulthood. That is, if they reach adulthood. Suicide is a significant risk for depressed adolescents and the third leading cause of deaths among U.S. teenagers...
...could be found singing “Hakuna Matata,” playing with the protein modeling computer program Pymol, or coming up with some harebrained scheme to entertain and distract his friends, they said. The aspiring oncologist passed away in early October at the age of 19, bringing an end to his four-and-a-half year battle with desmoplastic small round cell tumor, a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Friends and family said that Friedman exuded brightness—both in his intellect and his personality. His optimism even in the face of a bleak prognosis...
...time Pulitzer Prize winner John H. Updike ’54, who showed early signs of his writing prowess while walking the halls of Harvard’s English department, died in late January of lung cancer at the age of 76. Updike authored more than 50 books over the course of his decades-long career and won two Pulitzers for his works “Rabbit is Rich” and “Rabbit at Rest...
...really like ourselves. So we're very wary about displays of kindness. The word nice kind of captures that suspicion. It doesn't have much meaning. [Niceness] could just be a masquerade, a piece of fakery. People think that a lot because that's the ethos of our age. I think people would gratefully give up that wariness given half a chance...
...This is a difficult responsibility to embrace. For human history has often been a record of nations and tribes subjugating one another to serve their own interests. Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners of it. Our problems must be dealt with through partnership; progress must be shared...