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...best efforts may only be exacerbating the problem - and that inadequate sleep in childhood can have long-lasting health effects. "It is very hard to let your child cry it out when they are toddlers," says Dr. Elsie Taveras of Harvard Medical School, referring to parents' tendency to pick up their children or bring them into the family bed to help them sleep. "But if you approach it differently - 'I am not even going to start my child making these sleep associations' - it's much easier to prevent [future problems...
...that a lot of women will be thinking to themselves, Yeah, right, how do I get my husband to the doctor? One of the tips I give women is that if your husband agrees, even mildly, to your suggestion to go to a doctor, use that as license to pick up the phone, schedule the appointment yourself and, when it comes time, get him in the car. You need to be the proactive...
...think people did a good job of sticking it out.” While Brown and Dartmouth may not represent the toughest challenges of the Ivy League, the Crimson still used the match to make an important statement: with this win the squad plans to pick up right where it left off after a successful fall season. “It takes a little getting used to [returning to competitive matches],” Sheldon said. “But this match was a good warmup, with a smaller field than usual. It helps us ease our way back into...
...leaders of the Free Thesis Project. He added that there is a need to drive down the cost of scholarly journals, which would eliminate the high subscription rates for universities. Even as the University shifts to open access, the Free Thesis Project has yet to pick up momentum among Harvard’s senior thesis writers. Jason E. Neal ’08, the only senior to have submitted his thesis so far this year, said seniors are often too preoccupied to think about how they would like their thesis to be distributed for future readers. “Seniors...
...tried to deflect attention from his own failings by championing the confiscation and redistribution of white-owned farms - the legacy of a colonial past that had left the lion's share of arable land in the hands of Zimbabwe's white minority - but this only deepened the crisis: The pick of the confiscated farms went to the President's cronies, and the country that had once been the bread-basket of southern Africa was suddenly no longer able to feed itself...