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...them," says one senior, who has chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome. "I very often can't get out of my room. I go to someone in mental health. They are confidential when they call my room and leave a message...
...There is absolutely no evidence that Mr. Amaral's supervision of Mr. Hicks was hostile, harassing or influenced by consideration of race," Taylor wrote. "Rather, there is clear evidence that Mr. Hicks had unacceptable attendance and exhibited a chronic unwillingness to take direction and work as part of a team...
Cambridge School Department officials said yesterday they have asked Harvard and other area universities to help them to relieve a chronic shortage of computers in the public schools...
...path that led medical researchers to beta interferon was hardly straightforward. Initially, some scientists believed attacks characteristic of multiple sclerosis might be triggered by chronic viral infections. So in 1984 they began testing gamma interferon, one of the body's own antiviral weapons, in MS patients. To their horror, patients became dramatically worse. The false step proved instructive however. "It told us that gamma interferon was a major player in this disease," explains neurologist Dr. Kenneth Johnson of the University of Maryland at Baltimore...
...future episode of NBC's "Blossom," another teen-oriented program, Blossom refers a friend suspected of having an eating disorder to a past bulimic, who explains her cycle of chronic dieting and purging...