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...RUTH J. SIMMONS President of Brown University The President should acknowledge the widespread concern among many youths that they will inherit a world unalterably damaged by environmental degradation, cultural and political tensions, limited economic growth and other factors that could impair the realization of their goals. Leaders should permit us to see their willingness to engage critics for the profit of our democracy...
Mark is quick to point out that each so-called disorder is only understood as such if the drives and behaviors impair normal social interaction. No disorder exists, then, unless the “fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning,” the manual explains...
...It’s a dangerous chemical if used improperly,” Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) spokeswoman Peggy McNamara said. “You can blind and permanently impair people with...
...partner. I can't hear him either; stress can impair hearing as well. I am only a few feet from horrified people yelling their lungs out, but it is as if I were deaf. I also feel that my eyes are bulging with the same terror I see in the passengers' faces...
...expel heat. Sweating, another key way of giving off heat, also tends to diminish with age and with getting out of shape. "Basically, the elderly are vulnerable to heat both because they have greater difficulty in regulating their core temperature and because increased prevalence of diseases and medicines impair the ability to dissipate heat," says Dr. Samuel Durso, associate professor of geriatrics at Johns Hopkins. "The two in combination can be deadly." (See box.) What's more, older people generally don't feel thirsty until they're already dehydrated. (The exact reason isn't known...