Word: mental
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Noguera indirectly replaces Charles V. Willie, a sociology professor who will retire after this year. Willie was appointed by President Carter to the President's Commission on Mental Health...
...Mental health services at Harvard are understaffed and inefficiently coordinated--though improving--according to a report to be released today by a special committee organized by University Provost Harvey V. Fineberg...
Although I applaud Dr. Ducey's and the Bureau's care for our mental health, they should not be too quick to jump at the psychological cause of students' decreased motivation and ignore the physical underpinnings of our functioning...
Kids can bargain with school officials, but have virtually no First or Fourth Amendment rights (guaranteeing basic civil liberties and preventing undue searches). Unless they can invoke a special circumstance, such as a mental disability, kids often have thin grounds on which to base a defense against school punishment. That's because the U.S. Supreme Court has eroded student protections granted in the 1960s. In 1995 Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a caustic decision allowing drug testing of students. "Minors," he said, "lack some of the most fundamental rights of self-determination--including even the right of liberty in its narrow...
Maybe Steve Forbes had a colonoscopy recently, and perhaps Bill Bradley gave a charitable donation to the World Wildlife Fund in 1978. It's very possible that all the presidential candidates are judged by their family physicians to be in excellent physical and mental health. What does that tell the public? That it's unlikely George W. Bush will keel over during his term? That Al and Tipper Gore are, according to a private analyst, "happily married...