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...decade of watching ER hasn't taught you how to perform CPR, you can now learn from the American Heart Association's $30 at-home kit, which includes a CPR dummy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctor's Orders: Oct. 24, 2005 | 10/16/2005 | See Source »

Many skaters scheduled to perform in this weekend’s benefit show, An Evening With Champions (EWC), will eschew the Charles Hotel for “Hotel Harvard” and spend their weekends as guests in the upperclass Houses. “Some skaters stay in hotels and some on campus,” said Sasha D. Kukunova ’08, one of the liaisons between EWC and the skaters performing in the show, who is in charge of organizing this weekend’s housing. This year, EWC was able to obtain eight hotel rooms...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard, Hotels House Skaters | 10/14/2005 | See Source »

...great leaps forward in practice space, equipment, and band formation come out as envisioned, Harvard will soon be teeming, rainforest-like, with talented and well-practiced rock groups. But how many hours of plugging away in the basement of Wigglesworth are as beneficial as getting onstage and performing for a crowd? At some point, every group that claims to rock has to play some shows.According to Hufstedler, this is another problem endemic to new bands, and again she is prepared with a possible solution, saying that “there are many bands just getting on the level where they...

Author: By Eric L. Fritz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Does Harvard Have an Appetite for Rock and Roll? | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

...happen. Worse yet are the numerous occasions in which Claire attempts to take a “mental snapshot” of Drew and mimes an invisible camera. Such a cutesy representation of internal thought should never again be enacted on film—ever. Bloom and Dunst perform well together, but inconsistently. Bloom’s brown puppy-dog eyes are capable of more than just weakening the knees of 13-year-old girls; here, they convey a lot of subtle emotion. He can do many variants of caged and restrained, but nothing for exuberance. Dunst can be endearing...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Elizabethtown | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

...half of the brain becomes overactive and inhibits the signals from the damaged half. This imbalance in brain activity can lead to the loss of motor skills. TMS therapy aims to restore that balance by decreasing activity in the healthy half. In the study, the patients were asked to perform simple tasks like pressing a button in response to signals displayed on a computer screen. Patients treated with TMS showed up to a 50 percent improvement in their reaction time, while those patients who received a placebo treatment did not show any significant improvement. Since the publication of his study...

Author: By Xianlin Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HMS Studies Stroke Treatment | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

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