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...NAMI-New York City, after reading the 2006 mortality report, health workers held focus groups to assess their patients' health concerns. There were many - foremost among them, the simple desire to feel deserving of good health. "The most shocking thing was that people really wanted to be healthy but there was a disconnect," says program associate Katie Linn, who ran the focus groups. "A lot of it came down to self-worth - they didn't feel like they were worthy of taking care of themselves...
Harvard students aren’t really known for dancing. And dancers aren’t really known for physics. Except for one: Merritt A. Moore ’10. This year, Moore took a year off from Einstein and relativity to focus on a different kind of motion: ballet. Currently on the Swiss stage with the Zurich Ballet Company, the physics concentrator began dancing at the age of 13 in Southern California. She practiced ballet throughout high school and performed with the Harvard Ballet Company on campus. Moore’s partner in many HBC dances has been Kevin...
...social chair of Suffolk County House of Correction Tutoring Program at the Phillip’s Brook’s House Association, he has been going to the facility once a week for two years. The Prison Education Committee, one of the few PBHA tutoring programs that focuses on assisting adults, gives its volunteers unique access to a community that is both isolated from mainstream society and in desperate need of aid. “This segment of the population, I think, is very much feared, ignored, [and] neglected,” says Rachel M. Singh...
...idea is always being willing to make yourself more agile, because you have to be ready to make decisions, and today’s decisions happen at the speed of light,” McConnell said. McConnell also noted that the intelligence agencies have shifted their focus so that terrorism is now considered a legitimate threat. He noted that the FBI—which is considered both an investigative and domestic intelligence agency—has made the prevention of terrorist attacks its “primary focus.” As director of the nation’s intelligence...
...While there are plenty of wasteful defense projects to consider excising as a part of this plan, Obama would be wise to focus on one that has plagued U.S. policymakers and taxpayers both for a quarter century: ballistic missile defense...