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...athlete who can't focus or suffers from slower reaction times is left more susceptible to a slew of other injuries, including another concussion. A second blow to the head could lead to more arterial constriction and more calcium infusions. "Concussion produces an energy crisis in the brain," says David Hovda, director of the Brain Injury Research Center at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. "A second concussion will cause such an energy demand that it will overwhelm the survival capability of the brain." (See the Year in Health, from...
...steam started to go out of the peace movement. Israelis became convinced that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat played a double game, talking peace but battling Israelis from within the Jewish state and the Palestinian territories. In 2000, after the collapse of the Clinton Administration's peace talks at Camp David, Arafat, claiming that Israel had failed to honor its commitments, presided over a second intifadeh. Then came the wave of suicide bombings from 2001 through mid-2002, which wreaked terror in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem...
...armed Jewish settlers, challenge illegal demolition of Arab houses in East Jerusalem, keep an eye out for bullying Israeli guards at Palestinian checkpoints and fight in Israeli courts against army and police excesses. But even among these die-hard believers in peace, there is a sense of exhaustion, says David Shulman, a Hebrew University professor of Tamil language and culture who is an activist of Ta'ayush, which defends Palestinians from settlers who destroy their olive groves. "We're worn out," says Shulman. "The right wing has sold to the Israeli public [former Prime Minister] Ariel Sharon's foolish idea...
...formation of the school-wide committee, which will function as a subcommittee of the University-wide review, comes as conflict of interest issues have received national scrutiny. (The Harvard-wide review is being led by David Korn ’54, a former dean of Stanford Medical School who is occupying the newly-created position of vice provost for research...
...endowment has been relatively less hard-hit than Harvard’s, losing 11 percent of its value as Harvard lost 22 percent—next year’s Ph.D. class size will remain the same, according to the university’s graduate school associate dean, David N. Redman...