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With that little blue pill, any man--no matter how old--can be a stud. Right? Not necessarily, according to new research out of Stanford University School of Medicine. In an eight-week study, psychologist Linda Banner, working with urologist Rodney Anderson Jr., studied 57 long-term couples, mean age 57, in which the man had had erectile dysfunction for an average of five years. About half were randomly chosen to receive Viagra alone; the other group got Viagra along with sex therapy. After four weeks, just one of the Viagra-only couples did well enough (on standardized gauges...
...curriculum follows an approach pioneered by Stanford educator Henry Levin, whose 1986 "Accelerated Schools Model" called for schools to introduce slow learners to the same material as gifted students, while school officials work closely with parents. Says Sved: "We are forming a new and exciting model for urban education, and we've shown that it works...
...city schools with the academic results produced at Accelerated, which serves Grades K through 8--and, as a charter school, is free of much of the red tape that often chokes other institutions. While some states have begun to question whether most charter schools outperform regular public schools, the Stanford Achievement Test scores at Accelerated have jumped 93% since 1997, with increases of 35% in reading and 28% in math last year alone...
...year-old journalism graduate student on the verge of starting an internship when her parents' bitter divorce resulted in her taking sole guardianship of her sister Lisa, 11. Unprepared, Janice had to reorganize her life quickly. She pursued a job rather than an internship and moved into Stanford University family housing with her boyfriend Scott, who was willing to share parenting responsibilities. Dr. Laurie Kramer, a University of Illinois siblings expert, says that for the older sibling, such an upheaval can be restricting. "The ages from 18 to 25 are really a time of life when you're exploring," says...
...much more to explain recently than his company's $886 million loss during 2000. For instance, why did he claim to be a 1987 Stanford graduate when he had spent only three years there? Everything looked rosy last spring when Pacific Century paid $36 billion for Cable and Wireless HKT, the biggest corporate buyout in Asia outside Japan. The Stanford admission may have made credibility as big a problem for Li as profitability...