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...about the Harlem Renaissance at some point in your life. This condensed understanding most people grow up with does not allow room for the complexity necessary to grasp the complicated ways in which black women have contributed to the struggle of all black people. Nor is it able to contend with the added complication of womanhood—which in some cases meant that these contributions weren’t particularly welcome. The only way to ensure that people grow up with a balanced understanding of black history is to completely revamp the way that it’s taught...
...meantime, doctors who prescribe these drugs are left to contend with jittery patients and their parents. "Are we now supposed to do regular EKG's on every kid on Ritalin?" asks Dr. Gabrielle Carlson, a child psychiatrist at Stony Brook University School of Medicine. "What on earth is the poor consumer...
...basketball playoff against Dartmouth, a defeated Harvard bench and a lopsided box score told the story that two regular-season thrillers between the Crimson and the Big Green could never tell.Harvard, come-from-behind darlings in two previous games against Dartmouth, just did not have the interior muscle to contend with bruising Big Green forward Elise Morrison. Throughout last season, the Crimson lacked a true offensive and defensive post presence. The result? Harvard outhustled and often outshot slower opponents, but the Crimson fell short—literally—against the towering Morrison and her trigger-happy Dartmouth teammates...
...depression-proof their child's brain. It's not enough to avoid stuffing up in obvious ways - they have to do a lot of things right. The child who forms a close relationship with his parents will grow up to form close relationships with others, and that, the authors contend, is the secret to happiness. "It's kind of dead simple," says Murray. "Human beings are relationship-forming animals. That's what we are. All our genetics gear us toward solid, supportive relationships. It is through these that we survive." Just as strong bonds are the path to avoiding depression...
...Games that take place in the summer. Then, even the longest and most lonesome event - the marathon - is run amid the constant roar of crowds cheering every step of the race. The Winter Games has its own supply of electricity, but it's more a gathering hush as athletes contend with their frozen surroundings. You hear it in the cross-country skier's gasping solitary climb up a snowy hillside or in the sharp swoosh of a perilous slide down a bobsled track. Sometimes there's no sound but the wind as the ski jumper silently soars above the trees...