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...Into this anxious mix have stepped hucksters and marketers who see worried parents as the most promising pigeons. Store shelves groan with new products purported to stimulate babies' brains in ways harried parents don't have time for. There are baby Mozart tapes said to enhance spatial reasoning and perhaps musical and artistic abilities too. There are black, white and red picture books, said to sharpen visual acuity. There are bilingual products said to train baby brains so they will be more receptive to multiple languages. The hard sell even follows kids to the one place you'd think they...
Allison J. Porter ’02, an astronomy and astrophysics concentrator living in Quincy House, had Kirshner as an advisor for her junior paper. Porter raved about Kirshner’s ability to mix fun with academic rigor...
...giving marketers even more opportunities: interactive TV screens in the backs of taxis, moving 3-D images that can be printed on posters and postcards, machines that produce 3-D holographs of products and logos that seemingly morph into one another and hover in space. Sometimes the forms mix. London agency The Media Vehicle uses 3-D effects to produce cart-stopping grocery-floor ads - like an image of an oversized can of Guinness stout seemingly bursting through the floor...
...Greenspan, Harvard’s graduates heard from U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, National Institutes of Health Director Harold Varmus, Czech president Vaclav Havel, and even Vice President Al Gore ’69. This mix of speakers reflects Harvard students’ wide-ranging interests, and we would encourage Harvard to return to its previous practice of selecting speakers from all walks of public life...
...botanicals, she decided, weren't the whole answer. Wellness meant stress management too. It also meant being willing to use the powerful if hard-edged tool of Western medicine. So she returned to school, earned her M.D. at the University of New Mexico, and now practices a rich mix of healing arts. Her clinic is a place where pain may be treated just as easily with acupuncture, kava kava root and preparations from the black cohosh plant as with prescription drugs. "Illness is a message," she says. "Western doctors see it as something to be destroyed, but it can also...