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...latest case to make headlines concerns a Scottish couple who lost custody of two of their six children on the basis of what was, their lawyer claims, a failure to reduce the kids' weight following warnings from Scottish social services. The couple lost their Oct. 14 appeal in a case that is far from clear-cut - representatives of Dundee City say they would never remove children "just because of a weight issue." But obesity appears to be the primary reason South Carolina mom Jerri Gray lost custody of her 14-year-old, 555-lb. son in May. She was arrested...
Each time I visit The Otherside, I am reminded that fitting into hipster culture, and into many other social groups, requires a very specific set of affectations. By contrast, at Harvard you can almost always fit into a community as you are. I’ve spent quite a bit of time reflecting on whether and how my life would have been different if I had traded in my hours in lab and long nights perfecting problem sets to fit in with any given social set. Now, as a senior, I realize that it certainly would be different, but probably...
...History teaches us that many of the most enlightened social protection measures have been enacted at times of economic or political crises,” Frenk said. “If well crafted, health reform can be a key ingredient in economic recovery...
Molly M. Strauss ’11, a Crimson associate editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House...
...state's Panhandle.) But it's considered the first to make that mission its raison d'être. Under its NeighborhoodHELP (Health Education Learning Program) scheme, which will forge permanent relationships with underserved zones of Miami, students are assigned a household along with counterparts from fields like nursing, social work and public health. Rock developed the idea with FIU's Dr. Pedro Greer - whose pioneering efforts to deliver medical care in poor areas won him the Presidential Medal of Freedom this year - after his work in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina drove home the need for "embedding health care more...