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...Staff writer Rachel L. Pollack can be reached at rpollack@fas.harvard.edu...
...hardest things to portray in fiction is the creative process; it's more interesting to watch, say, Jackson Pollack empty a whiskey bottle than a tube of paint. But somehow, this gimmicky, bitchy, wonderful reality show pulled it off, by challenging a set of aspiring fashion designers to do things like make a garment out of products from a grocery store (the corn-husk dress won). Unlike so many reality game shows, Runway actually cast intelligent, interesting creative people interested in doing good work in their field rather than media whores out to become future Style channel hosts...
...Alpizar's mental disorder, which does not surprise some mental-health experts. About 2.3 million Americans have bipolar disorder, a condition in which a person's mood can swing from depression to euphoria. But "there is still a stigma about saying 'I have a mental illness,'" says William Pollack, a psychologist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., who has consulted for the Secret Service...
...insects that invade your home, bed bugs are the worst, because they are hard to control and even harder to prevent," says Richard Pollack, Ph.D., an entomologist at the Harvard School of Public Health. The bugs hide close to their warm-blooded prey in mattresses, box springs, floorboards and clothing. They usually remain out of sight during the day, making them hard to find and difficult to completely eliminate. Even when you're bitten, the anesthetic the bugs inject numb you to the fact that it is happening. The only trace they'll leave-apart from the welts-is blood...
...placed in a new environment, the mutant mice spent twice as long exploring their new territory as their genetically normal counterparts. The results of this “open field” test suggest that the knockout mice also had less innate fear than the control group. Mark H. Pollack, director of the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor of psychiatry at HMS, said that the study could help doctors understand anxiety better. “If you can identify genes that may be relevant for anxiety disorders, like social anxiety...