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Dangerous. Misguided. Untenable. Those were just some of the criticisms leveled at amateur psychologist Judith Rich Harris and the conclusions in her controversial book The Nurture Assumption when it was first published a decade ago. In it, Harris argues it's not what parents do or say that determines who their children become - what really matters is the influence of peers. (See pictures of Americans at home...
...often “isolating,” and Houses can provide tutors with a “sense of community,” she said.Mather House officials weren’t the only ones to report a measurable spike in tutor applications—Adams House Master Judith S. Palfrey ’67 said that she was excited about a larger pool of “diverse” applicants in Adams. Joshua D. Goldman, a fellowships tutor in Lowell House, said that though the number of annual applicants varies “widely,” applications...
...limited to undergraduates. Harvard’s 12 residential houses are led by 12 academic couples, and there’s little interdisciplinary mixing among them. Kirkland House masters: both Romance Languages and Literatures. Lowell’s house masters: both Religion. Adams House masters Sean and Judith Palfrey: both doctors, both specializing in pediatrics. Sean Palfrey laughed at me when I asked him about love between disciplines, but he said there were definite advantages to a relationship with someone who really understands you. “I think it helped us in medical school,” he told...
After the Faculty broke into laughter, Faust confirmed that the University is considering such a plan. According to Faust, Judith D. Singer, the provost for faculty development and diversity, has been discussing the possibility of implementing a faculty retirement plan with the deans of Harvard’s schools...
...anus development, and hydrocephaly, a condition in which excess spinal fluid builds up in the brain. While the risk of birth defects in obese women has been known, "I wouldn't have predicted the range of birth defects found to be increased when we looked at maternal obesity," says Judith Rankin, an epidemiologist and one of the authors of the study. (See the best and worst moms of all time...