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...study psychiatric disease, in a move that backers say will jump-start the search for the genetic basis of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The Stanley Medical Research Institute awarded the gift—the largest ever given for psychiatric disease research—to the Broad Institute, a three-year-old joint venture between Harvard and MIT. “There’s no understanding of the causes of these diseases, and that needs to come from collaboration between clinical people and those in neuroscience and genetics,” said Edward Scolnick ’61, who directs...
Toddlers who spend more time lounging in front of the tube maintain less healthy diets, a Harvard Medical School (HMS) study announced yesterday. Each additional hour of television viewed by three-year-olds translated into 46 more calories consumed each day. “Obesity is very hard to treat once it has started,” said Sonia A. Miller, the HMS student who led the study. “We can already see the influence television has on three-year-old children, and it seems that reducing screen time will be very important in relation to the prevention...
...When I was growing up," said one New York City mother of two, "we had a cake with our family and maybe one or two friends." She describes a party she went to recently for a three-year-old, in which the kids went on simulated space rides, then after pizza and a clown, made their own toy dolls, Lego trains and balloon sculptures, all in the span of a couple of hours. "The kids didn't have a chance to take in what they were there for," she says, "which was to celebrate their friend's birthday...
Additionally, Fitzsimmons said the College’s three-year-old financial aid initiative has encouraged more students to apply...
...spiraling divorce rate has presented opportunities for China's entrepreneurial classes. The number of divorce lawyers in the city has quintupled in the past five years. Detective agencies specializing in marital investigations are proliferating. Zhang Kaidong, the self-dubbed "Mistress Buster," employs former policemen, journalists, athletes and bodyguards for his three-year-old private-eye firm in Shanghai. Much of his business involves investigating assets for women who worry that their soon-to-be ex-husbands will lowball their savings in divorce court. "Before, women wouldn't fight for their share because they were so embarrassed about divorce," he says...