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...students and offers a variety of services to best help any who feel they may have symptoms of depression or other mental health problems. For those who are unsure, or hesitant to take a first step, Harvard University Health Services is offering a totally anonymous telephone screening test for depression...
This measure gave school committees the man-date to raise test scores but denied them power to carry out this task...
...title fights are in Washington State, where George Soros has put up $335,000 in support of a medical marijuana initiative, while Steve Forbes spent $70,000 against. Also, Bill Gates ($185,000) and the NRA ($2 million) are going head-to-head over handgun safety. Using the Clinton test and totaling up the campaign dollars, we can see that Soros and the NRA have won. What? You thought the voters actually mattered in all of this...
What makes the JAMA study particularly noteworthy is its rigorous design. The researchers started with 309 test subjects who either had Alzheimer's disease or had suffered a stroke. These were randomly divided into two groups. One was given 120 mg of ginkgo extract, the other a placebo. Neither the doctors nor their patients knew who had been given what until the end of the study. Meanwhile, researchers measured mental deterioration using three standardized tests. The improvements were modest--a few points, say, on a 70-point scale--and showed up in only two of the three tests, but because...
Congratulations on the informative articles on Buddhism, American-style [RELIGION, Oct. 13]. As you pointed out, the Four Noble Truths that expound on the sudden flash of insight that the Buddha received some 2,500 years ago have stood the test of time. These basic truths are as relevant to late 20th century America as they were to 6th century B.C. India. Trials and tribulations are constant factors in daily living, and meditation can only make good sense as a tool to get in touch with our inner core and the spiritual self to weather life's troubles. OM SAHAI...