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...realm of $18–$23 million, would also help pay for the deficit.At the meeting, top administrators were quick to tie the budget deficits—which could exhaust the Faculty’s reserves by 2008, according to the committee report—to a period of rapid expansion for FAS. Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby referred to recent years as “a time of truly historic investment,” and University President Lawrence H. Summers reiterated that it has been a “period of extraordinary investment...
...Public Health, is interviewing Hurricane Katrina survivors for a separate study. He wrote in an e-mail that it is important to hear directly from those who have been affected by a disaster. “Fifty years of robust disaster research has clearly demonstrated that the most rapid and sustainable recovery from a disaster occurs when the disaster victims themselves are directly involved in determining the recovery process,” he wrote.Kessler and his colleagues are using several tactics in their efforts to compile a representative sample of the two million families he said were affected by Hurricane...
...intelligence would seem to be a universally desirable goal, not all tasks and stages of life demand the amped-up cognitive speed and processing power the new regimens and medications may make possible. Becoming a parent, for example. I read somewhere once that many mothers and fathers suffer a rapid, appreciable drop in IQ after their babies are born. This, if true, is a huge gift from nature. Diapering, feeding and comforting little ones demands dumb endurance, in my experience, not penetrating cleverness. Thinking too clearly while cleaning up diarrhea on two hours' sleep in a house that...
...side and society's on the other, the classic model might show a steady drift over time, depicting a slow-burn Americanization, taking as long as two or three generations. The more recent Asian-American curve, however, looks almost like the path of a boomerang: early isolation, rapid immersion and assimilation and then a re-appreciation of ethnic roots...
...latest addition to that budding pharmacopoeia is a narcolepsy drug called modafinil that was approved two years ago to help shift workers stay alert. And there's a lot more in the pipeline. Neurologists have made rapid progress unraveling the molecular underpinnings of memory and attention, and drug companies are testing dozens of compounds derived from those discoveries to treat cognitive ailments like Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia...