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...this, the final stretch of their lives as Harvard College students. For a select portion of the class, a last chance at one of undergraduate education’s greatest honors turned out to be their best. In ceremonies to be held today, the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) will acquire 91 new members, increasing the total number of this year’s PBK graduates to 163. Invitations to the honor society are first extended in the spring of every academic class’ junior year, at which time 24 inductees are named. In November, an additional...
Alums recall Kristof as one of the brightest undergraduates on campus—he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years and earned a Rhodes Scholarship. But he didn’t strike his peers as the type who would be held up at machine-gunpoint in Beirut and elude rebels chasing him through the jungle in Congo...
...classmates who enlightened me with their many talents, attitudes, and viewpoints. And in those explorations with my teachers and my peers, I discovered the first hints of what I found meaningful. I realized that my definition of “doing well” could mean induction into Phi Beta Kappa, but that it could also mean learning a cultural dance whose name I could barely pronounce for Ghungroo, the South Asian dance show, or working with Undergraduate Council members to bring a student voice to the Curricular Review, or engaging in a Moral Reasoning section discussion on the justification...
...helpful as beta-blockers, antidepressants and even anti-epilepsy drugs may be in preventing some migraines, they don't cure the condition. Eventually scientists hope to discover therapies that address the brain's overly sensitive circuits more directly. For what it's worth, getting older seems to soften the blow. Studies show that migraine attacks peak between the age of 35 and 45 and decline after that...
Lifestyle changes, however, are sometimes not enough to prevent migraines. In such cases, doctors may turn to beta-blockers, drugs that were designed to treat high blood pressure. Although these medications open up the blood vessels, which would seem counterproductive if you're trying to prevent a migraine, they also turn out to have a soothing effect on nerve cells...