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...BEEN 25 YEARS younger, he would have been the quintessential 1960s hippie. Instead, the sweet-souled, world-weary, darkly funny Kurt Vonnegut became the avuncular, rumpled hero of the counterculture generation. In books like Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, the satirist, who struggled with depression, repeatedly explored the harmful effects of industry on human beings' collective morality. After laboring in obscurity for decades, he shot to global fame in 1969 with Slaughterhouse-Five, a fictionalized account of his experiences as a POW and "corpse miner" in Dresden after the Allies bombed the city...
...Tolkien's full-on high-heroic style, which is sometimes hilariously dorky and faux-archaic, and as a short subject it never achieves the towering operatic grandeur of the trilogy. But it's still a huge pleasure to be back in Middle-earth and see it in a younger, wilder era. There's plenty of lore for scholars, and plenty of dwarves and balrogs and mighty smiting for the casual fan. Just one warning: it's a dark tale with a flawed hero, full of ruinous accidents and bitter betrayals. You'll have to wait till the Third...
...locomotor training has gone mainstream, with at least 17 hospitals and rehab centers in the U.S. and a handful in Canada and Europe offering it. So far, the patients who have undergone the therapy number only in the hundreds, but about a third of them have been 21 or younger, a fact that is not only helping doctors spare the very patients in whom loss of mobility hits the hardest but also revealing much about how the nervous system works...
...slots for junior professors, but would also dilute the influence of old guard professors who cling to the notion that junior professors must leave Harvard before securing tenure. While former University President Lawrence H. Summers claimed that tenure reform was a high priority so that Harvard could get a younger, more dynamic faculty, it is unclear whether the system is working any differently. Harvard needs to make it a priority to give junior faculty members a fair chance at getting tenure instead of making tenure an unattainable dream for most of its junior faculty...
...Likely much of what will occur at Take Back the Night will involve citing statistics about the prevalence of rape. For instance, younger women are victims of sexual violence at higher rates than older women. Supposedly only one in five rapes is reported to police. And a favorite statistic: 80 percent of rape victims suffer at the hands of someone they know...