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Ultimately, the number of depressed older people in our country will decrease when we get better at acknowledging their importance in our society. As baby boomers approach their mid-50s and move toward Golden Pond, it is essential that we transform society's attitudes toward older people and build institutions that provide constructive cultural, economic and social roles for them. Depression is not only more common than the common cold but also infinitely more dangerous. Depression and suicide in old age send a negative message to all who would grow old. The first baby boomer will turn 65 just...
Both groups, one at Harvard's physics department and the private Rowland Institute for Science and the other at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, took advantage of the fact that a beam of light can transform matter--a cloud of rubidium atoms in one case, supercooled sodium in the other--from ordinary opaqueness into temporary transparency. Having done that, they shone a second light on the clouds, and then turned the first...
...descent continues, for me, until Monday. Then, having hit bottom, I will transform into a human bubble, light as air I will shoot up through the Harvard Trench of finals period, and undergo explosive decompression. I will float right to the top of the mythical mountain, and draw my first pure breath of freedom in more than a month. I can't wait...
...troubled start-up Legend Airlines: "The biggest deterrent to new airport planning is the resistance and political clout of major carriers. Dominant airlines must stop fighting new airport development if the entire system is going to improve." The FAA is on the right track in attempting to transform nearly two dozen former military airfields like El Toro in California and Homestead A.F.B. in Florida into commercial airports, but the process needs a jump-start...
...Army learned the importance of speed in Kosovo, where it was humiliated when it took a month to ship 24 Apache helicopters 800 miles from Germany to Albania. It vowed to transform itself into a lighter fighting force. It is spending $4 billion for a fleet of light, wheeled armored vehicles to be carried to battle aboard moderate-size but plentiful C-130 cargo planes. To keep the Crusader relevant, the Army wants to shrink the two-vehicle system from its current 110 tons to a relatively svelte 80 tons. But each system will still require a gigantic...