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Prescription-stimulant abuse is very real and more popular than many would think. There has been an estimated 40 percent increase in amphetamine production in the U.S. since 1993. Additionally, in a survey of 11,000 college students, those in schools with tough admission standards were shown to have the highest rates of abuse of Adderall or other stimulants; as many as 25 percent reported using to increase performance. It has also been reported that some teens pop an Adderall pill before taking college-placement exams...
Studying abroad over the summer is substantially more popular than going overseas during the semester, but students who stayed abroad for a full semester say that they felt as though they made a substantive transition from being a long-term tourist to a resident of the city, integrated into the culture and the personality of their new home...
...numbers in Silvio Berlusconi’s ruling coalition and came out on top in many of March’s regional elections. The party specializes in “Muslim-baiting” and has called for boats carrying illegal immigrants from North Africa to be shelled. A popular campaign poster warns that native Italians will end up on reservations like their American counterparts as a consequence of immigration. The League now has control of the Italian Interior Ministry, while Berlusconi himself has proclaimed the “superiority” of Western culture over Islamic culture...
...past few years, global health has become an increasingly popular topic of study on a national scale. As evidenced by a growing number of global health-related courses and organizations, Harvard is no exception to this trend, though no academic concentration in the field is available...
...affordable to students was gone the second we opened our doors. [This year] we wanted to have more works that were in the student price range, at 20 to 75 dollars.” To accomplish this, Schapiro and Guren asked the artists they anticipated to be the most popular to “edition” their works— to print five copies of the pieces, with unframed prints to be sold at lower prices than the original...