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The obvious problem is that certain groups may provide valuable services, but at the same time require participants to be of a certain faith or place a heavy emphasis on conversion. Allowing these groups government funding--giving government assistance to proselytizing efforts--would clearly threaten the separation of church and...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Faith-Based Initiatives Falter | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

A standard classification of the main drugs under discussion soon emerges in the book, and Courtwright focuses his first chapters on what he calls the "Big Three" and the "Little Three." Contrary to intuition, the "Big Three" includes the legal and mass-produced and consumed alcohol, tobacco and caffeine. The...

Author: By Laura Dichtel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Forbidden Fruit: A Cultural Study of Drugs | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

One of the main problems is that while we devote a lot of attention to helping adults lose weight, researchers and health experts aren't putting the same emphasis on helping kids to find a healthy weight. Take the past 25 years: In my research, I found that there are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Weighty Issue: Ever-Fatter Kids | 3/14/2001 | See Source »

By focusing its initiative on the neighborhoods of Allston/Brighton, Mission Hill and Fenway, the University has placed its emphasis on areas of Boston where it already has a presence and a strong possibility of further development.

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Pushes Local Investment | 3/14/2001 | See Source »

Coming as a reader means encountering the peculiarity of text: isolated, stripped of inflection and emphasis; vulnerable to selective reading, selective sight, decontextualization. Stranger than seeing yourself grinning exquisitely in vacation photographs is hearing your own words thrown back against you: "I was reading the other day," a friend begins...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: I.D.-ology | 3/14/2001 | See Source »

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