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...people—like The Hills or the phenomenally popular Gossip Girl—present viewers with a more palpable alternative to their own life. You might not be an Upper East Side socialite, but maybe you’ve sat next to one on an airplane (or in section...
...approach to achieving their goal of a freer Tibet from the ground up. "Everything will be on the table," he said, except the fundamental principle of non-violence. But seeking independence more aggressively could be a risky strategy - one that might leave the Dalai Lama pitted against a section of his own people and severely weakened in the eyes of his Chinese foes...
...wanted to get a quick answer to see what the end point would be like,” said Winner. “If we found no result then the longitudinal study would have no purpose.” Since the smaller study only tested a cross section of the age range—only those who are the oldest—its purpose was to pin point the specific skills which might be enhanced by musical training, Schlaug said. The longitudinal study examines whether playing a musical instrument enhances children’s abilities or simply serves...
...response to the student concerns, the school’s curriculum committee revised the school’s student handbook last month to include a section of new policies mandating that faculty and students disclose all financial ties to pharmaceutical companies when discussing drugs developed by those companies...
...people accumulate body fat in the abdomen—what we call central obesity, or apple obesity—those people are more at risk than people with fat in their hips or thighs—peripheral, or pear, obesity,” says Kahn, the section chief on obesity at Joslin Diabetes Center and a Harvard Medical School professor...