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Slavery is an injustice that concerns all people; we cannot sit silently by while tens of millions of our fellow human beings live in conditions of starvation, psychological trauma and unimaginable violence. Let us take some time out of our busy Harvard schedules to raise campus awareness of this issue. Then, as we reflect this month on the progress that has been made in the struggle for racial equality for all peoples, we can honor the memory of earlier abolitionists by carrying on their work right here, right...
...genes aren't everything. Therapists who work with narcissists often uncover childhood abuse or some other trauma leading to low self-esteem or even self-loathing--just the kind of emotional hole that pathological grandiosity would be designed to fill. Borderline-personality disorder affects more women than men, and some research has shown that up to 70% of borderline women were sexually or physically abused at some point in their lives. It's hard to hang that kind of mistreatment on the genes. Poorly handled bipolar disorder or learning disabilities may also evolve into personality disorders. Dr. Larry Siever, professor...
...series of successive images. Taken as the patient, lying down, moves through a scanning ring, these "slices" can be combined to create the illusion of depth. The resulting pictures of bone and soft tissue can help doctors distinguish between patients with a psychiatric disorder and those with head trauma (which can trigger similar symptoms). CTs have been particularly useful in identifying schizophrenia patients. In the 1970s researchers uncovered the first distinguishing abnormality in these patients' brains: the ventricles (fluid-filled open spaces), circled in yellow, are significantly larger in those with the disease, left, than in normal subjects, far left...
...There's more activity on the communications circuits used by dirty guys," says a senior U.S. intelligence official. "There are more cryptic conversations by people making plans to travel." The FBI's graphic warning of "spectacular" attacks causing "mass casualties, severe damage to the U.S. economy and maximum psychological trauma" raised anxiety even as agents acknowledged they had no idea when, where or how the terrorists might strike. While the Administration did not raise the national alert level from yellow to orange, officials are bracing for the worst and operating on a hair trigger regarding any suspicious activity. Before 9/11...
...Laden nonetheless U.S. legislators decrying the failure of the government's efforts to roll up his al-Qaeda network and prompted the FBI to warn U.S. law enforcement agencies to expect a catastrophic terror strike designed to inflict "mass casualties, severe damage to the U.S. economy, and maximum psychological trauma...