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...simple truth is that bad TFs will always persist at the College. A large research university, even with a faulty-student ratio as low as Harvard’s, will have to tap grad students to teach. But as we have insisted for years, the College can do much more to make TFs better teachers than endowing prizes or offering brief crash courses on grading, which will undoubtedly be easy for grad students to coast through...
...preferred theory for how SEGT may extend life is that it affects patients' behavior: that is, they're more likely to persist with treatments with unpleasant side effects, or begin new ones. They may do this because they've been inspired by a fellow group member, or because they've heard first-hand that a certain drug or alternative therapy is worth a try. That the effect of this might be to give some women an extra year or more of life appears to be a "valid hypothesis," says New York therapist Kissane, but even when the results...
Worried patients peppered doctors and other health-care providers with questions of their own. Should they stop taking Vioxx right away? How long could they expect its side effects to persist? Was there another drug they could take instead? Most doctors rushed to reassure. "This is a serious issue and should be dealt with seriously," says Dr. David Wofsy, president of the American College of Rheumatology. "But for the vast majority of people who are on Vioxx or who have ever been on Vioxx, there is no harm." (More on that...
...high-risk areas on campus. All of this past week’s events took place near Mt. Auburn Street and the areas around Leverett and Mather Houses. HUPD must respond to these obvious trends, issuing more patrols in these incident-heavy areas where attacks have continued to persist...
...give up at difficult moments, the resilience to recover from fumbles and setbacks that are inevitable in high-pressured college life. “Kanter’s Law” holds that everything can look like a failure in the middle. Confidence makes it possible to persist through the middles to successful endings...