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...believe, or does anxiety somehow prime the brain to become depressed later in life? Brain scans show that the amygdala is very active in depressed patients, even when they are sleeping. Studies of twins suggest that many of the same genes could be involved. "There's a lot of overlap," says Dr. Dennis Charney, chief of the research program for mood and anxiety disorders at the NIMH. "Anxiety and depression have a similar underlying biology, and the genetics may be such that anxiety surfaces early in life and depression later on." Still, no one can say for sure...
While there is overlap between Harvard’s and Stanford’s accepted applicants, Lewis says it is reduced by Stanford’s binding early decision program—and still Harvard surpasses Stanford in its ability in getting those commonly accepted to enroll...
...past. In an age when economic stratification and the income gap are drastically increasing the rift between the haves and the have-nots, students’ access, or lack thereof, to educational resources is playing a greater role in determining their academic futures. Though there is often an overlap in the communities that ethnic and socioeconomic diversification aim to serve, considering only ethnic diversity is an incomplete answer to the problem of homogeneity in the academic community. Rather, administrators and admissions officers need to realize that both ethnicity and socioeconomic status serve pivotal roles in students’ experiences...
...Arab is a culture, Islam is a religion and though there is some overlap, they are two different things” Hamad said...
Forbes magazine recently released a list of the world’s billionaires—they also publish a list of the richest people in the world and a list of the richest Americans. Given all the overlap one wonders if they’re not pandering to billionaire vanity—and a look at the top of the list is a pretty interesting commentary on the state of the economy. Predictably, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and the preternaturally genius investor Warren Buffett occupied the top spots. What is most striking, however, is that five of the ten richest...