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Show the average 14-month-old baby a sealed jar of cookies, and you get some pretty predictable behavior. The child will reach for the treats and, when thwarted, look beseechingly at the nearest adult. The request for help - delivered with eye contact, gestures and often with pleading sounds - is unmistakable. But some babies don't do it. One little boy, captured on video by psychologist Wendy Stone at Vanderbilt University, repeatedly places a researcher's hand on the cookie jar but never once looks at her face to see why she isn't responding. Eventually, tragically, he gives...
...along with the Harvard Dental Center—will remain closed until May 6, when the transmissibility period for the current patients will have passed. “This is a unique situation because the [infected] students see patients and, in this group of nine students, there was contact with patients,” said Barbara Ferrer, the executive director of the Commission. Ferrer added that her office also recommended that the Harvard Medical School suspend its clinical rotations until May 6 due to its close relationship with the Dental School. Rosenthal said that the Medical School has complied with...
...neighbor's generosity in lending their dining hall to the hordes too lazy to make the trek to Quincy. Adams continued capitalizing on their best asset in their Assassins game, opting for a dining hall theme of spoons as weapons. FlyBy heard the requirement that the spoon make skin contact in order for a kill to count brought out hoodies and fleeces along with the occasional facemask and gloves. Yeah... told you these people were intense...
...weren't prepared for this. Harvard University Health Services sent out a helpful email informing the Harvard community about how to avoid contracting the virus. Insightful advice about washing hands (with soap, people!), avoiding contact with the sick, and how to cough properly (“into the crook of your elbow”) from HUHS has been much appreciated by FlyBy, who had previously thought that sneezing into people’s faces and swapping saliva with those who had hacking coughs was healthy and downright sexy. So, in order to better inform...
...Rocori Middle School and St. Boniface School in Cold Spring were voluntarily closed today. Health Commissioner Sanne Magnan, also present at the press conference yesterday, said the woman is recovering and did not have to be hospitalized. According to Magnan, health officials “believe the person had contact with someone who traveled to Mexico.” In Mexico, the country of origin for the current spread of swine flu, 160 people have died of complications from the disease. The first U.S. death from the outbreak occurred in Texas on Monday night when an infant from Mexico City...