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What a brilliant science writer is Daniel Williams. He has written about the complex phenomenon of near-death experiences in layman's terms [Sept. 10]. I had a cardiac arrest in 2003 and was resuscitated by well-trained paramedics. I did not have a near-death experience, just the total blankness of a deep sleep. I believe NDEs are caused by malfunctions of consciousness arising from an oxygen-starved brain. The forms NDEs take are influenced by culture and by religious beliefs. I don't think any non-Christian, for example, would see a tunnel lit by brilliant white light...
Both the Crusaders’ defense and Harvard’s offense, however, are full of question marks. Holy Cross surrendered 455 total yards of offense to UMass two weeks ago, while the Crimson will look to find a running back to ease the load on senior quarterback Liam O’Hagan, who hopes to stay on the field for the entirety of 2007 after a five-game suspension cut last year in half...
...watch: the debut of the Cheng Ho Show, as the sophomore inherits the feature back role from the legendary Clifton Dawson ’07, and the start of the first full year of Liam O’Hagan since the senior signal-caller led the league in total offense as a sophomore...
...first nationwide analysis of high-achieving students based on income, more than 1 million K-12 students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches rank in the top quartile. Expand the category to include children whose families make less than the median U.S. income, and the total rises to 3.4 million--more than the entire population of Iowa. Now the bad news: nearly half of lower-income students in the top tier in reading fall out of it by fifth grade. As economically disadvantaged brainiacs get older, 25% of them drop ranks in math in high school...
...hyperinvolved parent of two, I realize there are worse phenomena than people spending a lot of time with their kids. But it's also exhausting, and pop culture has started asking if kid life has overwhelmed adult life. In the book Perfect Madness, Judith Warner worries that a "total motherhood" culture makes moms feel inadequate, while in The Death of the Grown-Up, Diana West argues (hyperbolically) that the eroding distinction between kids and adults is "bringing down Western civilization...