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...Lewis has argued, social relaxation time is essential to helping keep students emotionally and physically healthy and happy. But with Lewis out of the picture, the school’s leadership might not realize the extent of the damage they can do by demanding students spend much more time devoted to academics. More time studying will mean less time relaxing and sleeping—necessities for health. Results from a recently-released University Health Services study indicate that 46 percent of students have felt depressed over the past year, a mental health problem that is often linked to factors like...

Author: By Judd B. Kessler, | Title: A 168-Hour Week | 4/8/2003 | See Source »

...appeal to me. I'd much rather be in an appointed, executive position. I don't think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I'm used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Questions for Ray Kelly | 4/8/2003 | See Source »

...notable theme of many of the displayed books is the extent to which a particular alphabet or language is rooted in nature or natural phenomena. For example, a 1776 French treatise on alphabets argues that letters come from drawings of objects in which their sound plays a prominent role. The author shows the French word ‘matre,’ then a picture of a mother figure. That picture is stylized until it is transformed into the Chinese character for “mother”—a process that demonstrates how the capital letter...

Author: By Alexandra D. Hoffer, COTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alphabetic Acrobats Displayed | 4/4/2003 | See Source »

...European and British concerns are unlikely to be assuaged by the installation of a government staffed by Iraqis, because their primary concern - shared by the skeptics at State and elsewhere in Washington - is that the viability of any new authority depends on the extent to which it enjoys national, regional and international legitimacy. That, they argue, requires UN supervision of the processes of electing a new leadership and drafting a new constitution. Against that, the hawks will argue that tying up the transition in the inevitably fractious UN process will simply delay the emergence of a democratic, post-Saddam Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington, the Battle For Baghdad Heats Up | 4/4/2003 | See Source »

When first-years arrive on campus each fall, they are beset with a variety of placement tests to determine the nature and extent of their background preparation in fields such as mathematics, writing, and foreign languages...

Author: By Zachary S. Podolsky, | Title: Expos 10, 20, 30... | 4/3/2003 | See Source »

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