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Half the teenagers were randomly assigned to a prevention program that consisted of eight weekly group sessions of cognitive behavioral instruction (CB) lasting 90 minutes each, plus six follow-up sessions that met once a month. The other half of the volunteers were assigned to a control group that got "usual care," meaning they were free to seek help from whatever resources were available to them in their community - as were the teens in the experimental group. There were no differences between the groups in terms of the types of services they chose on their own. (Read "Talk Therapy...
...what of Lowell House and the other Harvard Houses? We have spent hundreds of hours of faculty, student, and staff time studying House expansion and renewal. Five or six years ago, we were looking at Allston. Houses, athletic fields, buildings were being imaginatively moved hither and yon to create a new campus. As the financial crisis began, that came to a halt. Then it was renewing the infrastructure of the Houses, particularly the river Houses like Lowell, still vastly overcrowded and deeply in need of full-scale renovation. That too had to come to a halt. We are, however, moving...
...very small number of extra beds gained by not having one, a number that does not actually ease overcrowding to any considerable degree. Moreover, there are some extra beds here and there in the Houses; I lived this year with four other people in what is typically a six-person suite. I would have happily sacrificed having two common rooms for the continuation of the transfer program. Certainly I recognize that my living situation this year is the exception and not the rule and that it was not predictable, but it does show that there is some room for movement...
...Rise early from your luxury overnight accommodation at the Franschhoek boutique hotel - a historic, six-room retreat, tel: (27-21) 876 4723, and head east along the N2 highway, with Table Mountain at your back. Once you've negotiated passage over the forbidding Sir Lowry's Pass, you'll arrive in Hermanus. Brunch at the Bientang's Cave restaurant, tel: (27-28) 312 3454. It really is found in a cave and overlooks Africa's only whale sanctuary at Walker Bay. (See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful and interesting getaways...
...Six years after it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Tel Aviv's historic Bauhaus quarter finally has a hotel that lives up to the accolade: the 12-room Hotel Montefiore, hotelmontefiore.co.il...