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There is little doubt that depression is bad for the heart. Much as fatty diets, cigarette smoking, inactivity and obesity are linked with an increased risk of heart disease, recent evidence suggests that mental health has a similarly powerful impact. The question has always been...
...while researchers are intrigued by the question of which comes first - depression or heart disease - the study points out that, in practice, it doesn't really matter. "It's hard to tease out which came first," says Whooley. "But our bottom line is that regardless of which is coming first, this study introduces a new pathway that might get at that risk, by focusing not so much on depression itself, but by getting at the behaviors that go along with depression." It may be easier to take Prozac than to take a jog, but as the study suggests...
...VIEW OF RHEE AND REFORMERS like her, the struggle to fix America's failing school system comes down to a simple question: How do you get the best teachers and principals to work in the worst schools? In her quest to figure this out, Rhee has already suffered a major setback. Earlier this year, she proposed a revolutionary new model to let teachers choose between two pay scales. They could make up to $130,000 in merit pay on the basis of their effectiveness--in exchange for giving up tenure for one year. Or they could keep tenure and accept...
...system needs comprehensive reform. The United States should adopt a totally open immigration policy for gainfully employed recent graduates of its postsecondary institutions, especially those in the hard sciences and engineering. Doing so is not merely a matter of collecting on one’s investment; it is a question of national economic security. The current system marginalizes the millions of dollars of educational investment that American schools make every year by forcing potentially productive members of the labor force to return home. And when American universities are even struggling to attract future engineers and scientists who are American-born...
...better or worse, I signed up for it,” Sprague said. “People seemed really excited about it, and one of the questions I received was, ‘What are you doing it for?’ I decided that was a great question...