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...Bhutan? Sure, we have washing machines and department stores, flushing toilets and pizza delivery and real showers. But do we appreciate any of those things? And if the answer is no, then are we no better off? Are our lives happier, or just easier? In Bhutan, life is shorter but it is infused with meaning and filled with familial love—due in particular to the Buddhist beliefs that permeate every black and white farmhouse...
...right, of course: I don’t live there anymore. Over the course of my Harvard career, my—and, I suspect, many people’s—trips home have become progressively shorter and less frequent. With every trip, the clothes I’ve abandoned in my closet look shabbier and lonelier, and the books on my shelves more outgrown; with every trip, I am struck by the businesses that have closed in my hometown and by the new houses that loom, raw, over freshly-seeded lawns. I can no longer name the children...
...prevent even those shorter gains, Harvard will first need to apply sufficient pressure to the Bears’ offensive linemen and push the point of initial contact backwards until Hartigan can no longer advance the ball up the middle...
...saved—innumerable lives in the past. Nor is it constructive in any way to sloppily cover all SSRIs under one homogeneous red flag. Factors vary from one SSRI to the next, and have direct bearing on the risk of suicidal tendencies. Paxil has a much shorter life than Prozac, for instance, and therefore leaves the body much sooner, leading to a “rebound” period during which suicidality is more likely to occur...
...journal Pediatrics. Researchers asked nearly 1,000 6th-to 12th-graders in western New York to list their friends, rate the likability of their classmates and pick out peers with particular characteristics, such as "is a good leader." Respondents graded very short teens--those about six inches shorter than average--as being just as well adjusted, well liked, disliked or bullied as their taller peers...