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...meantime, scientists caution that the news that children with ADHD appear to follow normal brain-development patterns, albeit a few years behind their peers, should not be taken as an O.K. to throw away their Ritalin. To the contrary, one of the study's co-authors, Dr. Judith Rapoport of the National Institute of Mental Health, says another study the team just submitted for publication (but which has yet to be peer-reviewed) suggests that in a few key areas of the brain that relate to attention and focus, kids with ADHD hew more closely to typical development trajectories only...
...heard my name and sort of blanked after that. It was all a blur.” Travia was one of five honored as “National Outstanding Advisors” at the assembly, which hosted 148 colleges and is the largest conference of peer educators in the country. The annual event is held by the BACCHUS Network, an international organization dedicated to promoting peer-based education on drug and alcohol use. (The acronym stands for Boosting Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students.) The five winners were chosen from a pool of twenty nominees...
...Technology, said that rankings can shape students’ initial consideration of a school. But he also echoed McGrath’s comments, saying that while it is pleasing to be recognized, students’ final decisions do not depend on them. The universities are evaluated on six criteria: peer review, recruiter review, excellence in research based on citations, student to faculty ratio, international faculty ratio, and international student ratio. THES and QS Quacquarelli chose criteria that they thought could be evaluated regardless of location. Universities from 28 countries are included in the list. The top 10 institutions, however...
...championship. Harvard, meanwhile, has struggled to define its new undergraduate curriculum and has not seen the top of its own league’s standings (at least in U.S. News and World Report) in a couple of years. Annual student satisfaction surveys unerringly place it near-bottom compared to peer schools. It bears asking, then: Have we and the Yanks suffered the same fate? When only perfection is enough, is failure inevitable...
...this limited perception which helps build the mystique around these organizations and the very pledging practices they officially denounce. The significant peer consensus that people who are “paper” (meaning they do not participate in the underground process) are lacking, and that “real” Greeks pledge, make becoming a Greek in minority communities a do or die situation for those who want it badly enough. But very few are informed about how dangerous and damaging the process can be—the fact that every pledging experience doesn?...