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Students plan to launch a new program next semester aimed at encouraging discussion of student mental health issues, a subject which has long been considered “taboo” on campus...
Putnins added that MHAAG’s motivation to launch the new mental health programs stemmed from student need for more open discourse on this seldom-discussed topic...
...obvious candidate for recoupling - for something that reduces the world's economy to the miserable level of its politics - is a preventive strike against Iranian nuclear installations, with all the global repercussions that would imply. Israel might like to launch one, but cannot; the U.S. could do so, but will not, given the debilitating unfinished business in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet even if a catastrophic war is unlikely, the world remains a dangerous place - made more dangerous by the condition of its prime power. The U.S. is today what Britain was during the first globalization: the anchor of the liberal...
Other researchers are looking at PTSD as well. Michael Davis, a professor of psychiatry at Emory University in Atlanta, is about to launch a study of at least 120 soldiers returning from Iraq to see whether a compound called D-cycloserine could help prevent PTSD. This compound activates a protein that helps the mind form new, less emotional associations with the original trauma, letting patients tolerate the memory better. Studies in rats and humans have shown that it can work--and, says Davis, "psychologists are very excited...
...Annie Sullivan and use sign language (don’t lie, you still know how to sign the alphabet) to communicate to passersby. 8) Just walk out. The proctors are too old to see you anyway. 9) Use your own blood to write a note on a paper airplane. Launch the airplane out the window. 10) Catch an unsuspecting pigeon, attach a rolled up note to its leg and tell it to look for help (it worked for Harry Potter!). 11) Find two cups (HUDS, Solo Cups, Starbucks, anything will do), and a piece of string (braided body hair works...