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...Recent reviews of the data from SSRI trials indicate that placebos are on average 80% as effective as the drugs. But this is misleading, argues Parker. The typical subject in the trials, he says, did not have the more serious melancholic depression that doctors invariably treat with drugs but a milder form more likely to resolve spontaneously or from non-drug therapies. A view common among doctors is that if antidepressant trials looked exclusively at people with melancholic depression, the gap in efficacy between the drug and a placebo would widen...
...arrests students and non-students alike like a policeman, and executes warrants like a policeman, then he’s probably a policeman. This is the simple logic of The Crimson’s lawsuit, filed two years ago, that asks the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) to be subject to the same open records laws all other police forces are. That lawsuit was heard before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts last Monday; it is now the high court’s task to determine whether HUPD should continue to exist as an exception to an important rule. Presently...
...Joe’s analysis may not be far off the mark. While an adult selling even an ounce of marijuana or growing one marijuana plant within three blocks of a university is subject to a one-year mandatory minimum sentence under federal law, students at Harvard are more likely to face a “formal warning” or, at worst, probation for their marijuana...
...hears a voice, it fixes its steely digital-camera eye on the person speaking. The taller ApriAttenda can identify a person in a crowd by the color of his clothes and shape of his body, and then follow its target. It even bleeps when it loses track of its subject. Next Product: Walkie Bits...
...starting to hang flesh on those stick villains. In addition to Syriana and Sleeper Cell, there's The War Within, a film about a plan to blow up New York City's Grand Central Terminal, and Paradise Now, about Palestinian suicide bombers. Salman Rushdie has taken up the subject in his latest novel, Shalimar the Clown...