Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only the promise of success will buoy us up from the murky depths of the real world. Achievement got us here, achievement sustained our identities here, so why shouldn't achievement remain the hallmark of our post-Harvard lives? As long as people feel they ought to become a doctor, district attorney or corporate raider (i.e., "viable future donor") when they leave this ivory tower, you can be sure the development office will be smiling all the way to the bank...
...While attending Phillips Exeter Academy as a teenager, MacNeil was badly injured by a baseball. He fell into a coma for 10 days. When he emerged from the coma he wanted to go back to playing baseball. MacNeil's doctor told him that he would have to wear a helmet while batting...
While attending Phillips Exeter Academy as a teenager, MacNeil was badly injured by a baseball. He fell into a coma for 10 days. When he emerged from the coma he wanted to go back to playing baseball. MacNeil's doctor told him that he would have to wear a helmet while batting...
...apple a day keeps the doctor away. That proverbial advice has always been presumed to mean that good health habits, such as eating an apple, help assure good health. Now scientific study suggests that whom you eat the apple with -- and not just the apple itself -- may be what makes the difference. An intriguing body of research, reported in Monday?s New York Times, indicates that social status may be an additional factor in assuring good health and longevity. Medical researchers are not sure what exactly accounts for the better health of people in higher socioeconomic classes, but the research...
Such outcasts may someday form their own majority, if this trend continues. The pain and confusion of growing up, once considered the proper subject of gloomy poetry read under the blankets and angry rock songs rehearsed in the garage, can now mean a quick ticket to the doctor's office. And it doesn't take a lot of acting up for a restless teenager to attract professional attention. On a website sponsored by Channel One, a television network for school-age youth, a recent posting written with the help of the National Association for Mental Illness classified the following behaviors...