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...Psychiatric Association’s list of disorders only in 1980. Within in a decade, Ritalin became the favored drug to treat this disorder, and both the disease and the drug became wildly popular. But the enormous numbers of children taking the drug suggest that the normal exuberance of childhood has been declared treatable. Studies on the use of drugs such as Ritalin have proven their amazing popularity. A 1995 study of a Medicaid program in the Midwest, for example, showed that over 10 percent of children age two to four were taking Ritalin or another stimulant...
Ansel A. Payne ’04 from Roane County, West Virginia said his childhood in rural Appalachia gave him a distinctive understanding on a history of exploitation rarely addressed in courses here. The contrast between perceptions of the poor at Harvard and their day-to-day reality was striking to Maggie J. Morgan ’04 when she arrived here from Tupelo, Mississippi. “People here need a broader perspective of how others actually live. Many think poor people are just some abstract group that needs to be reformed,” she said...
...painful to relive the experiences of my childhood, but I did not want to live the rest of my life in a closet of my own making. I have come out of that closet in Fireweed,” Lerner said...
After emigrating to the U.S. with just five dollars in her pocket, Lerner struggled through the Great Depression and spent decades in grassroots organizations. She credits her fascination with women’s history and her revolutionary academic achievements in the field to the experiences of her childhood and adolescence...
Lerner’s childhood of turmoil gave way to a life of academic achievement as a leading author and revolutionary scholar. Establishing the first degree program in women’s history in the United States, Lerner became a Professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin...