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...series, which premiered yesterday, aspires to do more than frighten viewers. It aims to turn addiction from a taboo subject into an acceptable community topic for discussion. At an advance screening held in Boston on Feb. 26, experts and former addicts came together to express enthusiasm for the show. REAL-WORLD ECHOES The screening, held at the Massachusetts State House, brought together many recovering addicts, representatives from the Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery (MOAR), and state representatives to discuss addiction in Boston. One recovering drug addict who attended the screening and who asked to be identified only as Jimi, said...
...These real-world experiences required Kruger to execute interesting tasks, adapt to odd situations, all while dealing with the stress of being the one to blame if everything were to go wrong...
...areas that don’t fit so automatically anywhere,” said Andrew D. Gordon ’74, the chair of the history department.‘HISTORICAL ILLITERACY’With the new curriculum subdivided according to a different philosophy emphasizing the real-world applications of academics, disciplines that were once isolated are being brought together.As a result, history and economics courses, which are separated into Historical Studies and Social Analysis in the current Core Curriculum, would fit into the same categories in the proposed general education structure.Given the ambiguity regarding history’s place...
Generally, you will see fewer heart attacks in the statin group (about 30% fewer in one real-world trial). Reducing the risk by a third sounds like a lot, which is one reason many hundreds of thousands of men with no sign of heart disease take statins. But that number is meaningless unless you take into account the percentage of men in both groups who have heart attacks in the first place. If those people represent only a tiny fraction of the two populations, an improvement of 30% isn't much--maybe one heart attack fewer in a group...
Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, a UC member who sits on the CUE, said that the report’s focus on real-world applicability marks a fundamental change in the rationale behind a Harvard education...