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...incest survivors will recover at least some memories of their trauma. Generally the flashbacks begin only after the victims reach their 30s, when they are either strong enough or safe enough to tolerate the pain. The most common memory triggers include learning about someone else's abuse, seeing children attain the same age at which one's own abuse occurred and undergoing therapy or hearing about the abuser's death...
What may be the union's most pressing desire--and the most difficult one to attain--is job security. Harvard is clearly looking to cut its payroll costs, and the union wants to be fully employed. "We believe that once someone comes here to work for the University, there should always be a place for them," Williams says...
...list of the 10 most popular Harvard classes by enrollment in September 1990 and what they pay teaching assistants per semester. To attain status as a senior section leader requires at least two years of graduate study and successful completion of General Examinations. Class Junior Senior Social Analysis 10 $4433 $5017 Lit. & Arts A-40b $2660 $3010 Lit. & Arts C-37 $2660 $3010 Hist. Studies A-12 $2660 $3010 Science B-29 $3325 $3763 Moral Reasoning 30 $2660 $3010 History 1690b $2660 $3010 Moral Reasoning 38 $2660 $3010 History 1653 $2660 $3010 Biology 1 $3325 $3763 Source: Core Office...
Moreover, dieters pay an exorbitant price in time, energy and self-esteem to attain and keep their ultra-slim figures. "Most people equate dieting with some kind of a masochistic ritual and cannot feel successful unless they are sacrificing all pleasure in eating," says Karen Miller-Kovach, director of nutrition services for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Except for extremely thin or extremely heavy people, Andersen flatly declares, "the emphasis should be off weight and on health...
...Cheney is a political generation younger than Bush. Yet he conveys a sense of assurance and gravitas -- what the British call bottom -- that the callow Quayle may never attain...