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...midst of the trajectory of your education here have a responsibility to help us explain this phenomenon to the public," he said...
Also, unaccompanied off-campus photos are not necessarily filler. Some news stories can be presented better through a photo than an article. News pictures can be a wonderful way to combat the phenomenon of campus-induced isolation. More people will check out an interesting picture on the Real World page, for example, than will read all the articles. According to Crimson President Joshua J. Schanker '98, The Crimson has made a special effort, in response to reader input, to include more national news, photos and Associated Press stories...
...historical phenomenon, the Giuliani-Messinger fight provides interesting fodder for dinner table banter. The ability of the first Republican mayor of New York City in a generation to so confidently cruise to reelection in a city with a 5-to-1 Democratic edge is remarkable in and of itself. Giuliani accomplished this by embracing Democratic ideas when politically expedient (opposing Republican immigration policies), using the media to mold his reputation as a 'ubiquitous action hero of Gotham,' and employing an utter ruthlessness in discrediting and attacking his opponents. If he does dominate at the polls in November, his strategy will...
...TIME's Christine Gorman reports, this is a global phenomenon. "So many strains now drug resistant you can easily go from one country to another spreading it," she says. "A lot of public health programmes in the U.S. have been gutted in the last several years because of the erroneous feeling that diseases like this have been eradicated ? but that's just not true...
...next three essays reflect increasingly focused arguments concerning the validity of the placebo effect and its growing popularity in the realm of modern medicine. Among the topics pinpointed are the clinical bases of the placebo effect and the "nocebo phenomenon," in which the mere expectation of sickness may cause the angst-ridden patient to hurtle towards death. Even though the articles start to resemble entries in a medical journal, compelling statistics--such as the 12 percent increase in "normal" U.S. suicide patterns following Marilyn Monroe's suicide in 1962--snatch the reader's attention whenever the discussion of endogenous opioids...