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...should be aware of and alerted to any history of depression or mental illness in their cancer patients. And if their patients do need counseling or support, they should be provided these services as part of their overall cancer care. "We think the diagnosis of cancer is a teachable moment, when clinicians need to really be involved in thinking not only, what am I going to do to treat this cancer, but the total person," says Mucci. (See TIME's health and medicine covers...
...game of basketball, there’s nothing like a blocked shot that brings a crowd to its feet. That instantaneous moment of contact immediately categorizes the two players involved as either the “rejector” or the “rejected...
...bracingly honest language that is not necessarily reassuring from a man who has the weight of Obama's Afghanistan policy on his shoulders. But that may be because Gates has something of the writer's sensibility about him. He has the look of a man both in the moment and at a slight angle, peering in, through dark glasses, upon the human comedy. In his 1996 memoir, From the Shadows, he wrote, "I was, during the remarkable events from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, there in the shadows, the proverbial fly on the wall in the most secret...
...Task Force also aimed to establish springboards for careers in the arts by creating a Master’s of Fine Arts program for visual artists and a Dramatic Arts concentration. But for the moment, Dramatic Arts has been relegated to secondary field status. The prospects of having a Dramatic Arts concentration may be exciting for Hollywood hopefuls, but others have expressed unease with the monopolistic effect it may have on the campus theater scene...
...meantime, the University’s funding for the arts remains surprisingly intact. Despite university-wide budget cuts, the Office for the Arts has managed to maintain the grants and fellowships that fund students’ artistic ventures. At the moment, Harvard students enjoy support from Artist Development Fellowships, Music Lesson Subsidies, and OFA Project Grants...