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...that is, there was some measurable impact on depression compared to the placebo effect. "But a very tiny effect may not have a meaningful difference in a person's life," says Irving Kirsch, lead author on the paper and a professor of psychology at the University of Hull in England. As it happens, only for the most severely depressed patients did that measurable difference meet a U.K. standard for clinical relevance - and that was mostly because the very depressed did not respond as much to placebos. The drug trials showed SSRI patients improved, on average, by 1.8 points...
High schoolers, college students, and masters packed the friendly confines of Gordon Indoor Track yesterday as they all tried to leave their mark in the USATF New England Indoor Championships. In what women’s co-captain Sally Stanton described as a “big, disorganized meet,” Harvard offered several impressive individual showings, as team rankings were not recorded. “This meet was really a practice meet for us,” Stanton said, looking forward to next weekend’s Heptagonal Championships, which marks the culmination of the indoor track...
...Historically, if undergraduates had a few decades of experience with New England winters, they would realize that there have been very severe winters in the past,” he said...
Among the most cherished of my boyhood memories is lying awake in bed in the middle of the night, tuned in to radio commentary of Ashes Test matches from England. On the other side of the room, my older brother would be listening, too, though his love of the game led him a further step: he would diligently record all the batsmen's scores and bowlers' figures in a little book offered for just that purpose by the Australian broadcaster. For two Sydney boys with cricket in their blood, this was about as good...
...director.Moholy-Nagy was born in Dresden in 1903. In the late ’20s she met and married Laszlo when he asked her to help him edit an avant-garde film. After the rise of Nazism, the couple came to the United States by way of England and settled in Chicago, where Laszlo founded the New Bauhaus school.“Laszlo dies in ’46, and she has two daughters, so she has to become the breadwinner,” says Heynen. “At that point, she comes to the teaching and academic career...