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...blood clots and heart disease. EXERCISE Weight-bearing exercises can slow the onset of osteoporosis. Relaxation improves quality of life and indirectly relieves symptoms. ANTIDEPRESSANTS These drugs, alternatives to hormone therapy for women at risk for reproductive cancers, can relieve hot flashes and insomnia. Side effects may include weight gain. PHYTOESTROGENS Estrogen-like compounds in soy may reduce symptoms, but studies are equivocal and product quality has not been standardized. BOTANICALS AND HERBS Black cohosh is moderately effective in relieving many symptoms (but not hot flashes). Like other botanicals, such as red-clover leaf, dong quai and ginseng root...
...study of high-achieving high school students conducted by Ohio State's Demerath was noteworthy for more than the stress he found the students were suffering. It also revealed the lengths to which the kids and their parents were willing to go to gain an advantage over other suffering students. Cheating was common, and most students shrugged it off as only a minor problem. A number of parents--some of whose children carried a 4.0 average--sought to have their kids classified as special-education students, which would entitle them to extra time on standardized tests. "Kids develop their...
...major threat facing the United States, former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry said at the John F. Kennedy, Jr., Forum last night. Perry, who led the Department of Defense from 1994 to 1997 under former President Bill Clinton, said that a nightmare scenario in which terrorists could gain access to nuclear weapons and use them against an American city was “all too real.” “If they get them, they will use them and the results would be devastating,” he said to a crowd of about 200. Perry...
...fact that the boy through the other fire door in my room lived in the same entryway offered more opportunities for interaction. Our door refused to stay shut—which proved useful on the frequent occasions that I locked myself out and went sheepishly next door to gain access to my room. Establishing a relationship with the person through the fire door, even if it’s just one of convenience, makes the inevitable eavesdropping a bit less absurd...
...Glenn S. Koocher ’71, who will host local television coverage of the election, thinks that Seidel’s relatively recent arrival on the Cambridge scene may make it difficult for him to gain a place on the council...