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...often bitter, and as I have pointed out before, the book makes at least one fundamental error in the way it conceives of mental problems: it ignores causes almost entirely. If you feel sad and tired for a couple of months, have trouble sleeping and making decisions, and gain weight, you can be given a DSM diagnosis of depression (296.31 or 296.32, mild or moderate, recurrent) and prescribed drugs for it - even if the reason for your funk is that you just lost your job. Such physiological responses as insomnia are evolutionarily natural (and sometimes helpful, in a jump-starting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Redefining Crazy: Researchers Revise the DSM | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...countries. Teachers’ poor classroom performance is thought to be a major cause of this education gap, and President Obama has wisely identified teachers’ pay scale as a main determinant of teacher quality. Currently, teachers’ compensation is largely based on their seniority. After teachers gain tenure at a school, their salary steadily increases over time, and they become nearly impossible for administrators to dismiss. This system discourages teacher effort by removing the financial incentive to work harder. Furthermore, college graduates who might otherwise pursue a career in education are discouraged by the fact that greater...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Back to the Chalkboard | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...There’s a striking anomaly here, though. Why don’t we have 3D porn?BGE: Not every new technology will be a winner. And to be sure, the adult entertainment business adopts plenty of technologies that don’t turn out to gain widespread appeal. So on 3D, with the polarized glasses, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of that actually does take off in due course. To date, the technologies have always seemed a little bit goofy to me. You have to wear some strange set of glasses and the pictures...

Author: By Luis Urbina, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions with Benjamin G. Edelman '02 | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...come from, so it's going to be a very slow growth recovery, and that means earnings growth will be relatively modest. Typically, from a bear market bottom you have a 30% to 50% rise, but this time because the earnings growth will be mild, I think the market gain will also be more modest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prognosticator Byron Wein: The Outlook for '09, Take 2 | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...remained tied through seven innings, and each team scored a run in the eighth. In the bottom of the ninth, junior Jessica Pledger nailed a two-out RBI single down the left-field line for the win.HARVARD 5, COLUMBIA 0Freshman Marika Zumbro allowed three hits in five innings to gain her first career win against conference opponent Columbia Saturday afternoon. Zumbro struck out three Lions and used Harvard’s four-run second inning to garner the victory. Junior Margaux Black closed the game by allowing no hits and striking out two Lions in two innings of brilliant work...

Author: By Colin Whelehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Nearly Perfect in Five-Game Classic | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

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