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...among teens, the teen pregnancy rate is five times that in France and Italy, only 25% of high school seniors are competent in math, 80% of teens gamble, and 5.5 million are in psychological counseling. In more than 100 cultures around the world, teen turmoil is entirely absent; the serious problems of American teens are the creation of a culture that infantilizes young people and isolates them from adults. Robert Epstein, Ph.D., DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO JOHN CLOUD RESPONDS: While the absolute numbers are still too high, Epstein ignores that the trends over time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Misery of Zimbabwe | 5/1/2007 | See Source »

...She’s fun, she’s likable, but very much serious about the campaign,” says Markus R.T. Kolic ’09, the co-chair of the undergraduate branch of Harvard Students for Edwards. “I was impressed, honestly...

Author: By Arianna Markel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Candidate’s Daughter Finds Time for Law School | 5/1/2007 | See Source »

...mental illness is imperative and timely, for most illnesses’ symptoms first surface in late adolescence and early adulthood. Be sensitive, be open-minded, be aware and get informed: When others reference mental health in a trivial or stigmatizing way, remind them that mental illness is a serious issue that affects everybody. Hundreds of Harvard students live with mental illness; you or a loved one may suffer from a disease that others may, in their ignorance, attempt to render funny. Ideally, the result of education about mental illness will be not only the elimination of ridicule at its expense...

Author: By Emily R. Kaplan | Title: Other People’s Disease | 4/30/2007 | See Source »

...first 45 minutes, it appeared as if the Bulldogs would be heading back to New Haven on the heels of a blowout win. The first quarter belonged to the Bulldogs as four different players scored goals and the Yale defense held Harvard to just two shots.The Crimson suffered a serious blow on offense 10 minutes into the quarter when Carle Stenmark—second on the team in scoring—went down with a blow to his right knee. The senior was taken off on a cart and would not return to the game, although the injury...

Author: By Barrett P. Kenny, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 4th-Quarter Comeback Falls Short | 4/29/2007 | See Source »

...TIME: You write in the book that there was never any serious debate about whether to go to war; instead, at some mysterious point in 2002, it just became obvious inside the government that the U.S. was going to war with Iraq. When did the U.S. decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Tenet | 4/29/2007 | See Source »

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