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...come a long way from Freud's couch. The big breakthrough arrived in the late 1980s with the advent of safer and more widely effective drugs, like Prozac. According to Dr. Bruce Cohen of Harvard's McLean Hospital, we're on the cusp of a new era in treatment as the search for a single magic pill for depression gives way to a broad spectrum of therapies...
EXERCISE What's a couch potato to think? First, researchers told us that even a 30-minute walk in the park a few times a week was enough to get the bulk of the cardiovascular benefit of exercise. Then other studies argued that intense activity was much better. Now the government has weighed in with new guidelines that call for an hour of exercise daily--double the previous recommendation. It's enough to make you throw up your hands and look for the TV remote. Don't. The message may be mixed, but it's really very simple: doing anything...
...these students would express their views, drawing on experience to form important cultural bridges. A tour in the service would also offer a temporary break from academia into a journey of self-discovery, while at the same time providing service to country and community. Something is lacking in this couch-potato era when tests of one’s fortitude are so rare that “reality” television shows like Survivor and Fear Factor become yardsticks of courage. The military offers the real thing. Richard Henry Dana Jr., Class of 1837, author of Two Years Before...
James E. Waller, Kibuchi E. Banfield and Nile N. Johnson have impeccable manners, firm handshakes and sit with near-perfect posture on Turnbull’s red couch. They carry themselves like professional singers...
From the corner of the couch, Johnson says the best part of the choir for him is dancing, singing, traveling and meeting new people...