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Once they were aware of the trend, Shiels and his colleagues analyzed the patients' medical records, finding consistent histories of self-injury and mental-health problems. There are numerous psychological and emotional factors that drive people to self-harm, but according to Harvard psychology professor Matthew Nock, who specializes in the study of self-injurious behavior and edited a book on the subject, Understanding Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (due March 2009), many do it for two broad reasons: to regulate their emotions and to communicate with others. "Self-injurers experience greater physiological arousal in response to stress, show poor ability...
...time of the conference, however, a Chicago Tribune reporter uncovered two more instances of self-embedding in an Illinois town - two teen girls had deliberately inserted pencils into their skin and broken off the tips - lending credence to the possibility that self-embedding was a growing trend, albeit off the radar. "We know it's elsewhere," says Shiels, who is creating a protected database for medical professionals worldwide to track the behavior. "It just hasn't been discussed and it hasn't been studied...
...These students are early adopters of a trend that is likely to grow, and indications suggest that they're not alone...
...that outflow of deposits is also part of a longer-term trend away from corporate credit unions. When the corporates were set up in the 1970s, they were meant to provide the liquidity that retail credit unions couldn't get elsewhere. As the era of deregulation descended on the financial-services industry, though, retail credit unions were increasingly able to fund themselves directly in the capital markets. To stay competitive, corporate credit unions knew they had to pay higher yields - and that meant riskier investments. "Over time they morphed into something more like investment banks," says Charles Felker, a managing...
...According to Inside Higher Education, Harvard ranked second among U.S. universities in alumni giving in both 2006 and 2007. A recently announced gift of $100 million from David Rockefeller ’36 indicates that 2008 will be another banner year in terms of alumni donations. If the current trend in giving persists, and presuming the economy recovers in the next few years, Harvard’s endowment could reach a whopping $80 billion within a decade...