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...about their personal lives and medical histories, and followed them up every five years to record changes in their circumstances. In the meantime, research elsewhere was linking variations in the gene that controls the movement of the neurotransmitter serotonin with susceptibility to depression. The serotonin transporter comes in three distinct genotypes, and depending on which one a person has, he or she is believed to be prone to depression, partially protected from it, or neither...
...they are written.The overarching purpose of the curricular review is to benefit undergraduates, and immediate passage of the centerpieces of the review will expeditiously accomplish this. If an interim dean of the faculty is appointed for the 2006-2007 school year, which, absent a permanent president, is a distinct possibility, then a permanent dean will not take office until the fall of 2007. And if the review is delayed this long, it will surely lose its newfound momentum, much to the detriment of undergraduates. If Harvard College is truly the progressive institution it claims to be, it will...
...brought under the aegis of the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR). The OSAPR is not a logical place to provide oversight to peer counseling groups that primarily focus on eating concerns (ECHO), sexual orientation/gender identity (CONTACT), general adjustment (Room 13), or contraception (PCC), which are distinct issues from helping students prevent or recover from an experience with sexual violence. The clinicians who supervise these groups are experts in their respective fields, and far more qualified to provide this oversight than...
...life begins at conception, by twenty weeks, the organism in question is a “child.” A living, breathing child, which is about a foot long in length, weighs about a pound, and has arms, legs, fingers, and toes. He or she has distinct facial features, with wrinkly reddish skin, eyes, lips, and a nose. Many babies delivered at this point and after are able to survive indefinitely outside the body of the mother. There is even scientific evidence that between weeks 20 and 30, the unborn child is even more sensitive to pain than...
...book that’s never been written is how black gay people perceive ourselves to be distinct. The black notion has never been to dress in rainbows,” he says. “It has been a bit more silent...