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...more important function: pushing some sibs away from risky behavior. On the whole, siblings pass on dangerous habits to one another in a depressingly predictable way. A girl with an older, pregnant teenage sister is four to six times as likely to become a teen mom herself, says Patricia East, a developmental psychologist at the University of California, San Diego. The same pattern holds for substance abuse. According to a paper published in the Journal of Drug Issues earlier this year, younger siblings whose older sibs drink are twice as likely to pick up the habit too. When it comes...
...created our Roosevelt issue. It was overseen by Priscilla Painton and Richard Lacayo, who was a superb player-coach and wrote two pieces for the issue. We commissioned pieces from the historian Paul Kennedy and some of Roosevelt's most prominent recent biographers, including Kathleen Dalton, Candice Millard and Patricia O'Toole. Presidential adviser Karl Rove sent in his story Friday morning, and it instantly became the endpiece of the package. The striking cover portrait is by the artist Michael J. Deas, who has now painted four of our Making of America cover images. D.W. Pine designed the splendid-looking...
...PATRICIA R. CAMPBELL...
Craig A. Kelley and Patricia M. Nolan ’80 took Cambridge by storm this past November when they ousted incumbents on the City Council and School Committee, respectively. In a city where incumbents have the job security of tenured Harvard professors, November’s election was a local political revolution. (A third challenger, Luc Schuster, also won a School Committee spot...
...have “a close affiliation with the academic world.” At a late September meeting, McDonald and Andrew A. Biewener, the chair of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, presented the letter to the full Faculty.When the University announced that Georgetown University law professor Patricia A. King would get the Corporation spot, the chairs got what they wanted.In November, McDonald organized a similar letter in the wake of a Crimson report that Summers had planned to fire Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby the previous year. The letter, which was signed by more than...