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...many older people in my large group of relations, and for the first time since Sept. 11, I wondered how they were really feeling. For the past several weeks much of our nation's concern has been focused on children--in my family, the attention tends to flow downward through the generations as if pulled by gravity...
...step into the same river twice. The philosopher Heraclitus came up with this limpid observation back in 5th century B.C. Greece to show that the world is in a permanent state of flux: the river looks unchanged, but its flow, its fish, the way it reflects light, are no longer as they were when we last visited. Although this awareness of transience has been around so long, we resist change, or at least we want it to be imperceptible, millimetric. This is how we manage to turn a blind eye to life's one immutable: death. We like our flux...
...conversation,” Assistant Professor of History T. Robert Travers said. In December, Travers plans to host an Indian-food catered brunch at his home for his freshman seminar on the cultural history of the British Empire. “By creating a friendly environment, intellectual exchange will flow only more easily,” Travers says. “It helps me as a professor as well, because it makes me more sensitive to the needs and interests of my students...
...months time, the Class of 2002 will be the first in a decade to graduate not into a booming economy, but into a feeble recession. The flow of job offers that was once commonplace for anyone with a decent GPA and an impressive resume has since dried up. And so, with heavy hearts and an overwhelming sense of failure, we have been forced to look elsewhere for employment...
...fight heart disease? Maybe. A preliminary study of congestive-heart-failure patients suggests that the ancient Chinese medicine may calm the sympathetic nervous system, the network of nerves that regulates activities we're barely aware of, like pumping blood. A less reactive sympathetic system results in smoother blood flow to the heart and easier pumping...