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...Nike shoes cost up to $200 a pair. Seafood restaurants in town charge $10 a plate. "In America, we could go to restaurants whenever we wanted to," says the teenager Carlos. "Here, we can't afford it anymore." And the cycle of migration is self-propelling. Bartender Alfonso Mayo López, 43, lost his job in the fall when the last bar in Tuxpan closed because all its customers had gone up north. López now sees fewer and fewer reasons not to leave his daughter and wife and join his brother in the Hamptons. "The more difficult it gets...
Aynsley Smith, director of the sports-medicine research center at the Mayo Clinic, gives her athletes a more tangible system of thought swapping. "I tell them that self-talk exists on three channels: positive, negative and escape. You try to be on the positive channel as much as you can while you're training or competing, but when the negative thoughts start coming, it's the speed of the transition that counts. I give them a clicker pen and tell them to just click over from the negative to the positive channel." If the anxiety doesn't go away, says...
...Cambridge eateries, free coursepacks, bike lanes in the Yard and much more—offered up, with little chance that any of it will be accomplished.The reward for shmoozing and outlandishness has been a bevy of nonsensical endorsements. Ethnic groups, who rely on the UC to fund Cinco de Mayo festivities and baba ghanoush feeds, seem to be particularly rapt with this game, but the implications of an ethnic endorsement are transparently ludicrous. Can campus Arabs hope to gain more from John S. Haddock ’07, the endorsed candidate of the Society of Arab Students, than the others...
PARKINSON'S Most people think of Parkinson's disease as something that leads to a shuffling gait or uncontrollable tremors in the hand. But the neurodegenerative process behind the condition can also trigger anxiety or other psychological disorders and--as scientists learned this year--so can the treatment. A Mayo Clinic study found that in rare cases, treatment with a so-called dopamine agonist led 11 patients to develop compulsive-gambling habits (two reported losses over $60,000). Four had never gambled before, but all the patients stopped their wagering within months after treatment was discontinued. The effect was apparently...
AUTISM The idea that childhood vaccinations might lead to autism has gained currency among some concerned parents, fueled by unsubstantiated reports on the Internet. The Mayo Clinic decided to test the idea by focusing on a specific population in Minnesota and analyzing the rise in autism cases there since 1988. They found that the apparent increase could be traced to improved awareness of the disease and changes in the way the condition is diagnosed but not necessarily to immunizations. The results will probably not end the debate, but most scientists are convinced that the shots are safe...