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...claimed to know nothing. Arm's-length parenting was common in this social set, writes Ballard, with children often treated as "an appendage to their parents, somewhere between the servants and an obedient Labrador." He claims these were happy days, yet time and again he mourns, without rancor, the lack of parental warmth, which he blames on the stiff formalities of the British middle classes of the time. "The vistas of polished furniture," he writes, "turned a family home into a deserted museum, with a few partly colonised rooms where people slept alone, read and bathed alone, and hung their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.G. Ballard: The Emperor of Shepperton | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...standard for clinical relevance - and that was mostly because the very depressed did not respond as much to placebos. The drug trials showed SSRI patients improved, on average, by 1.8 points on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, a common tool to rate symptoms such as low mood, insomnia, and lack of appetite. The U.K. authorities use a drug-placebo difference of three points to determine clinical significance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antidepressants Hardly Help | 2/26/2008 | See Source »

...said Kelley D. Coleman, president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association.Members of the Boston-based Project: Think Different bore colorfully-decorated signs with slogans like “FCC, where is the public in your public interest?” and stood outside the building protesting the lack of accessibility of the FCC’s hearings.But even the event’s protesters agreed that the discussion going on inside the building was significant.“I think net neutrality is a no-brainer,” said Cara Lisa Powers, one of the protestors...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HLS Hosts FCC On ‘Net Neutrality’ | 2/26/2008 | See Source »

...person may consider sewage in the gym to be less of a service than a threat to public health, but that’s a naïve dichotomy. A threat to public health can also be a service. Yes, the service that Harvard provides through such sanitation (or lack thereof) in the river houses is that same service cited by many fathers and grandfathers retelling their tales of childhood: building character.All around the river houses, stories of the success of Harvard’s “Character-Building Initiative” (CBI) circulate: Girls received the gift...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Building Character, Not Houses | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

...rebounds.Despite a poor shooting night, junior guard Drew Housman efficiently ran the floor, racking up eight assists on only two turnovers. More surprisingly, the 6’0” point guard amassed a game-high 11 rebounds. Success for the Crimson could partially be attributed to the lack of playing time Penn’s Tyler Bernardini was able to get. Entering the game as the team’s leading scorer, early foul trouble relegated him to a lonely spot on the bench as he only played six minutes in the first and 19 total. After sitting...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Victory Over Penn Completes First Crimson Sweep Since '87 | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

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