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...qualms with Harvard’s football and basketball facilities are, centrally anyway, limited to considerations of fan environment and overall atmosphere for the spectator. The dimensions of football fields and basketball courts are standard and unaffected by their shoddy surroundings. As far as I’m aware, the grass on the gridiron, while torn up as a result of play, has been properly maintained. The basketball court is not pockmarked by dead spots and warped wood...
Where it used to be standard to charge directly into medical school following college, more students are taking time to step back. As Michelson says pragmatically, “You don’t want to discover [during] the third year in med school, when you are $75,000 in debt, that this is not the right path...
...that these changes are significant in the development of cancer. But as a treatment adjunct, psycho- oncology is creeping into the mainstream. Self-help groups for cancer patients at all stages of the disease are common in Australia. But SEGT, the brainchild of American psychiatrist Irvin Yalom, differs from standard group therapy in several ways. Most importantly, a psychiatrist or psychologist leads the 90-min. sessions, working from the original premise of SEGT: that serious illness offers a chance for personal growth. "Much of life involves periods in which people drift somewhat aimlessly, taking life for granted," the three therapists...
...tested their limits. But the Bush campaign's transgressions have more often been misdemeanors rather than felonies, involving style and volume more than substance. The President has spent more than $100 million in negative advertising against Kerry, and almost all of it has been within the bounds of standard political practice. Some has been quite brilliant: the "flip-flop" assault inflated Kerry's most annoying trait--his nuance-addled hedging of political bets--into a defining character flaw. That was fair, as was the dreadful broadside of ads taking isolated Kerry votes--98 times, allegedly, for higher taxes--and telescoping...
Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman says that while open sites will, by their nature, remain more popular, the Net merely serves its users. "It's a public utility, and people do crazy things," he says. "There's no standard by which the Internet should operate...