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...brain, wondrous as it is, poses a special challenge for scientists. Mental disorders play out in a 3-lb. universe that is largely inaccessible without drastic--and extremely risky--surgery. At least it was until the 1970s, when the first crude pictures of the living brain were taken. Today researchers can peer into that universe with a variety of scanning technologies that capture the brain in action and send back beautifully detailed images that are the next best thing to being there...
...will also cap district leaders’ efforts to come to terms with a problem they had long brushed aside—the need for drastic action on elementary schools to combat years of declining enrollment...
This fall, D’Alessandro has trotted out several other plans, each one targeting a different slate of schools and drawing crowds of picketing parents. Even Price submitted a drastic plan of his own, which he withdrew after vehement criticism...
...current plan affects fewer schools than its predecessors, but it imposes more drastic measures—none of the previous plans had closed schools outright. And the opposition is as fierce as ever, especially from Fitzgerald and Harrington...
Smoking is an unhealthy habit, and it is certainly in the interest of the government to make people aware of its long-term consequences. However, the paternalistic attitude implicit in the cigarette tax ought to make governments wary of imposing drastic increases in cigarette taxes, or any sin tax for that matter. In the event more local governments, including Boston’s, decide to raise cigarette taxes, they should guide their decision not by attempting to punish smokers, but by reasonable estimates of what will internalize the negative consumption externality of smoking...