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...first form of Rotisserie baseball began at Harvard way back in 1960. Bill Gamson, a research associate in social psychology at the Harvard School of Public Health, invented the “Baseball Seminar,” a precursor to today’s national phenomenon in which players spent an imaginary $100,000 in bidding for players who amassed points in four statistical categories. Okrent, as Walker reports, was inspired to create the modern incarnation of Rotisserie by helping a close friend from the University of Michigan, where Gamson moved from Harvard, make his bids...
...Army is right for all 18-year-old males. Homeschoolers are not "school bashers," says Terry Harding, principal of the Australian Christian Academy, the country's largest homeschooling organization. "They see schools as a wonderful community service. But they also want what (homeschoolers) do recognized as a new educational phenomenon." Others say homeschooling is more than that - a glimpse into the future of education...
...Listening to homeschooling parents, it can seem that some of what they regard as depravity and rebellion is just youth asserting its independence. There's a bigger issue here that advocates of homeschooling tend to skirt. Socialization is too complex a phenomenon to be reduced to whether a child is sweet-natured and has a few chums. School does no less than expose children to the diversity of human nature. It's where they make, over the course of a decade, thousands of acquaintances. They might not have been friends with the weird kid, the brainiac, the pretty...
...stats are astounding: a top-rated TV movie that spawns Billboard's best-selling album and a flock of the most heavily downloaded singles on iTunes. High School Musical is a multimedia phenomenon for the Disney Channel, which no one older than 11 will admit to watching...
...sort of a distressing experience,” said McNally, who serves on the Harvard Medical School’s Hurricane Katrina Community Advisory Group, which tracks displaced Gulf residents.In New Orleans, everyone has a story to tell.Many student volunteers noted the powerful effects of listening to survivors. The phenomenon is called “vicarious traumatization,” said Karestan C. Koenen, assistant professor of society, human development, and health at the Harvard School of Public Health.“If you keep hearing these stories about people whose lives were torn apart, it sort of makes...