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Harvard has needed a student center like this for a long time, said Daniel B. Giffin...
...been waiting for something like this for a while," Giffin said. "It seemed like the thing that we lacked. It's bigger than I expected...
Dinosaur bones also hold clues to parts of the body that have disintegrated over the eons. By assessing the relationship in living animals between the vertebrae and the delicate nerves they protect, Emily Giffin, a paleontologist at Wellesley College, attempts to make inferences about the neuroanatomy of dinosaurs. Vertebrae are especially revealing because the canal running through them varies in size according to the number of nerve fibers it contains, and that in turn depends on how much the muscles controlled by these nerves are used. Giffin is trying to determine whether theropods -- the dinosaurian suborder that includes fierce predators...
...Winning doesn't mean anything," saidNottingham resident Robert Giffin, 54, from hisaisle seat at the Manchester conference, "becausenothing will changes...
Television, according to one theory, leads children to expect quick answers and undermines their ability to tolerate frustration. Says Psychiatrist Mary Giffin, who treats depressed teens on the North Shore: "Programs present serious problems and solve them in half an hour. Life just doesn't work that way." Other experts blame the breakdown of the extended family, the rise of a narcissistic culture and the post-Viet Nam disillusionment with politics. "To some extent, the epidemic of adolescent suicides can be traced back to Viet Nam," says Chicago Psychiatrist Harold Visotsky. "Young people became disillusioned with the magic...