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...genes that facilitate neural flexibility - easing the uncoupling of certain brain connections and replacing them with new habits - could, says Rose, help people to quit smoking more quickly. "It may be that connection-forming genes are involved in the formation of addictive behaviors and in the ability to learn new behaviors that compete with and break the habit," he says. "These findings open up new, fascinating investigations into the mechanisms of addiction and how different treatments may work." Eventually, this predictive information could come in the form of a quit-smoking "score," calculated from an individual's specific combination...
...Alone.” Leaving aside the stereotypically Harvard gesture of giving a girl a book to let her down gently, there was something deeply offensive at the time about the assumption that I would be so devastated about our break-up that I would need to learn how to be alone. Yet despite the irrelevance of essays on dying fathers and big tobacco, the thought of time away from other people did seem a bit terrifying. My initial revulsion to the idea slowly gave rise to the belief that being alone was synonymous with failure...
...then another, and then another, budding relationship would fail. I watched my roommates succumb to depression as their fundamental ideas of themselves were shattered by the social demands placed on them at Harvard. Although we all enjoyed our classes, the one lesson we avowedly did not want to learn was precisely that which my sophomore year fling tried to offer me, a lesson in how to be alone...
...courses approved by the committee. The result is that, as under the Gen Ed system, students devote about half their courses to their concentration, eight to the Core, and the remaining quarter to electives. But unlike in Gen Ed, the student with a sincere desire not only to learn modes of inquiry, but also to gain an educated person’s familiarity with a subject outside his major—be it Fine Arts 13, History 71, or Shakespeare—must do so by sacrificing two of a precious eight elective slots. These slots are also expected...
...Conducting such experiments is by no means simple, but in order to learn what is truly effective, we must select from among a few leading candidates, try them out in different markets or market sectors and compare their effectiveness over time. This sort of experiment is not only useful in helping us determine how to spend the immediate stimulus package but, more importantly, it can help us with market problems that we are certain to encounter in the future...