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...After his talk, Florenz fielded questions from a young supporter of activist Lyndon LaRouche, an instructor from Boston University, and graduate students from MIT and the Kennedy School of Government. Questions ranged from the possibility that the climate crisis alarm is a hoax, to a query about the environmental impact of the higher speed limits in Germany, to the issue of how to make environmental protection a nonpartisan issue. Blackbourn said that he was delighted to co-sponsor an event with the Center for the Environment. “I will be the director for a few more years...
...likely than their peers to suffer from depressive disorders or anxiety disorders - and to be at risk of suicide. While the link between the conditions is poorly understood, the paper, which followed 8,000 youths, notes that altered levels of serotonin - a neurotransmitter affecting mood and appetite - have an impact both on migraine headaches and affective disorders. The study doesn't suggest that migraines make kids suicidal. But it does show that kids with migraines are more likely to be suicidal. It's possible, then, that further research would uncover common biochemical causes...
...divisive and complex as the Iraq war has been, health care reform promises to be an even bigger challenge, in part because of its vast expense, but more so because of the polarizing impact it continues to have on the country. A member of the coalition, former Republican Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee, compared the challenge of reform to the bipartisan efforts made on civil rights in the 1960s and the environment in the 1970s. Baker knows Washington's political culture has changed for the worse since he retired several years ago, so while his description...
Award recipient Arjun Vasan ’07, who has served as the co-president of the South Asian Association, agreed with Chou about the positive impact of the event...
...process became easier when we established more concrete criteria,” Nguyen said. “We decided that the recipient had to have made a lasting impact, not just performed their job well...