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...nutritional information on students’ eating habits remains an open question. COMPETITIVE EATINGThe problem is that competitive Ivy League institutions typically pull in loads of students who identify as perfectionists. According to David B. Herzog, director of the Harris Center for Education and Advocacy in Eating Disorders at Mass. General Hospital, these traits can have effects that go well beyond intense studying. “Those who put more demands on themselves, are under greater pressure, and are more competitive—like the students who go here—are more conducive to eating disorders...
...parliamentary reelection. "Their economic policies have been very risky, very irresponsible, and Spanish families are paying the price." The PP has also linked economic woes to what it believes is widespread anxiety over Spain's burgeoning immigrant population. During Monday's debate, Rajoy blamed Zapatero for 2005's mass regularization of immigrants, arguing that they "couldn't all fit." Borrowing a page from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Rajoy also repeated his party's call for greater "control and order" of immigrants, promising, if elected, to require them to sign a contract agreeing to conform to "Spanish values...
...that awareness, per se, is a bad thing. If I were in a burning theater, I would definitely appreciate someone who showed up in a Fire In Theaters Awareness Week t-shirt and shouted at me. But I would appreciate a fireman even more. In an age of mass media, e-mail lists, and Youtube, when information travels faster than ever, it is not difficult to be aware. But it is difficult to move from awareness to action...
...JAMES HERRON JANE ROSENZWEIG Cambridge, Mass. February 18, 2008 James Herron is the Assistant Director of the Harvard Writing Project. Jane Rosenzweig is the Director of the Writing Center...
Researchers from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and Mass. General Hospital (MGH) are one step closer to reprogramming adult stem cells and making them capable of creating tissues for all parts of the body without the use of viruses or cancer-causing genes. Harvard Medical School professor Konrad A. Hochedlinger recently discovered how long adult mouse stem cells need to be exposed to reprogramming factors before they convert to a pluripotent, embryonic-like state, at which point they can be potentially used for medical treatments. According to Hochedlinger, his lab set out to unveil the mysteries of the reprogramming...