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...evoked by the FAS administration. Invoking the concept of “reshaping”—something of an administrative watchword in recent weeks—Faust said she did not want to “unduly constrain” the imagination of faculty members as the six working groups charged with reviewing further budget modification draw up proposals. “I don’t want to impose on you a set of approaches to these problems that might limit your ability to imagine,” Faust said. She added that structural changes could involve...
...available from the CPD documenting the alleged crime. At this time there is no reason to believe that the armed robbery is related to a shooting that occurred yesterday in Kirkland House, according to Catalano. This year, the Harvard student community has received e-mail advisories about six robberies or attempted robberies that have occurred since August 2008. HUPD was dispatched for 14 robberies last school year, three of which occurred on Harvard’s Cambridge campus, according to the HUPD Web site. —Staff writer Emily J. Hogan can be reached at ejhogan@fas.harvard.edu...
...Suicide as a result of bullying or any other cause is rare among children under the age of 14. Recent statistics from the CDC cited one suicide for every 100,000 kids, which is down slightly from six years ago. But an estimated 160,000 students stay home from school every day because of bullying incidents, according to Dr. Allan Beane, a former teacher and bullying expert who authored The Bully-Free Classroom. "These kids get angry and frustrated, and it creates this sort of toxic shame within them," he says. "They also have gotten to the point where they...
...cells. Nerve cells in the brain rely on calcium to become activated, and research suggests that imbalances in the mineral can result in the overstimulation of neural connections and create developmental problems, such as autism and even epilepsy, which is also a common feature of autism. (See six tips for traveling with an autistic child...
...spent two days and nights terrorizing South America's biggest city, killing at least 33 law-enforcement officers and transforming São Paulo into a ghost town where 20 million people cowered behind their locked doors and barred windows. But more fresh corpses began turning up in the six days after the police had restored order than during the gang-induced chaos itself...