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...sick of the generalizations about young people in the media. My friends and I don't spend our evenings causing havoc or drinking ourselves into oblivion. But the media's focus on youths who do makes some adults think we are all alike. On a bus not long ago I overheard other passengers saying young people are "no good." How can we have faith in ourselves if others don't? Rachel Scholes, Manchester, England...
...Sochi meeting produced a rather amusing document, titled "The Strategic Framework Declaration," whose contents could be summed up in the old Russian adage that "It's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick...
...Basically, there is an extraordinary group of people who have been infected with HIV for up to 30 years and who have never gotten sick,” said Walker, who is the director of the Partners AIDS Research Center at the hospital. “The goal of this project is to figure out why that is and whether we can replicate that in other people...
...Tuesday, I awoke at 1:28 p.m. Like many Harvard students, my class attendance is a bit spotty. And not only for lack of sleep: perhaps we need to study for a midterm, or we have a religious obligation, or we are sick, or we are just hungry and lunch doesn’t fit our schedule, or we are hungry and then we get sick from eating HUDS lunch. Whatever the reason, the fact remains that Harvard students often need to dodge the classroom (and when students do go to lecture it’s probably to sleep, Facebook...
...willful withholding of this opt-in teaching tool is paternalistic, and reflects an inaccurate conception of reality on the part of professors. For some students, watching lectures online at their leisure when they are not tired, sick, or hungry—coupled with the ability to pause and rewind a video—could actually aid in learning...