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...Wicksell. The kids want to play soccer or basketball, they want to go to movies, they want to be able to tell friends they can spend a whole Saturday with them. But for many of these kids, just standing up from a sofa can hurt a little. "So we discuss pros and cons - the short- and long-term consequences of not doing things with friends," says Wicksell. The kids eventually learn how to take their pain along with them to social outings - how to hold it close rather than dragging it at a heavy distance. (See the most common hospital...
Amid comfy floor pillows and freshly baked cookies, students gathered at the Women’s Center last week to discuss “Masculinity at Harvard.” But, even after an hour of debate, the participants couldn’t fill in the blank: “What is a Harvard man?” Is he a nerd, a cheat, a cad? The confusion is understandable: Afraid of appearing patriarchal, the College promotes an ideal for female students—the career-oriented woman—but not for male students. Though this attention to women...
...Nick, the cute, sensitive, cleaned-up Kurt Cobainy one. You discover this slowly, through the songs, since there's little dialogue in the movie, and most of it in the first 10 minutes after they get their 4:30 am wake up call from bouncer Big Rob and discuss the day's punishing schedule over breakfast. After that it's a parade of songs and screaming fans and one or two cool 3D effects. In other words, pretty dreary. Wear a watch, so you'll have something else to look at occasionally and can gauge the length of your...
...future. “The idea is not to be punitive, but to call them out on it,” she said. Anita Barry, the Commission’s director of the Bureau of Infectious Disease, told the Globe that her agency would engage with the hospital to discuss prevention of similar episodes. “If we don’t hear about these smaller groups first, how can you start to identify if there’s a larger issue?” she said in a interview with the Globe, citing concerns that hospital staff carry...
...last year and mortgage defaults - well, they're moving beyond subprime borrowers and hitting those with previously high credit scores. On Feb. 27, Biden and eight members of his task force, including Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Energy Secretary Steven Chu, will meet at the University of Pennsylvania to discuss the rescue of the middle class. Their first task? Creating green jobs. The committee believes that building environmentally friendly homes will help decrease middle-class homeowners' electricity and heating bills. That is, of course, if they have a home they can still afford. Read TIME's 1986 article...