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...receives no opportunity to develop a conception of any reality outside of one solely populated by self-validating reflections. Even socially, she noted, students here seek administrative ego-support, referencing one student's now-famous appeal to the Dean of Students, published in The New York Times, to ban homework on the weekends. (The Crimson, you may recall, proclaimed earlier this semester that no student should have to do homework on a Friday night...
BACKSTREET BOYS Millennium album breaks one-week sales records. Must have been a light week for homework...
...Weller, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania, has developed techniques for detecting depression in kids. First she establishes a rapport with a child. Then she asks, for example, whether he still has fun playing softball or whether it is taking him longer to finish his homework--both of which are ways to figure out whether the child has lost motivation and concentration. Crying is another marker for depression, but Weller says boys rarely admit to it. So she asks them how often they feel like crying...
...tried to cover both these issues fully, and we've also explored such topics as the Internet, attention-deficit disorder, cliques and gangs, homework, hunting, and ways to create better schools and students. After the Conyers incident last week, we decided to do another special report, this one focusing on how to spot and treat troubled kids...
Over the past year, we have run many family-related covers on such subjects as homework, Ritalin, genealogy and growing up online. Yet, as our health columnist, Christine Gorman, explains, "the news most useful to people often doesn't make big headlines." It takes an expert columnist to dig it out and turn it into practical advice. And we've recruited two of the best to take turns writing our family column...