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What about Facebook? According to a study conducted at Penn State, people with higher friend counts seem cooler, more attractive, and more confident. Given the bizarrely circular nature of celebrity, in which you can become known simply by being known, Facebook seems like an ideal tool. In a culture where...
Come September, students will no longer arrive on campus to a slew of fresh-faced faculty members. Instead, the same professors with the same interests will stand up to present much the same material as the year before. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) can expect a â?...
It's one thing if you can't find pork at your local market. You can always buy chicken. But rice has no good substitute in many Asian diets. In Mandarin, the word for rice is also the word for food. The Thai phrase "to eat" translates as "eat rice...
High school minus the prom and plus a less awkward health class, single-sex education has long been a contentious hotspot of the academic world. Many proponents argue that adolescents benefit socially and academically from being able to develop without feeling pressure or judgment from the opposite sex; but others...
That shortage has already arrived in Massachusetts. The MMS report revealed that 27 percent of medical directors had trouble recruiting family physicians, in comparison to only 7 percent who found it difficult to recruit specialists such as anesthesiologists, orthopedic surgeons, pediatricians, and radiologists. The lack of primary care physicians translates...