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Before Kugel stopped teaching the class due to personal health concerns four years ago, the core had become so popular that its enrollment reached nearly 900 students—larger than this fall’s biggest class, Social Analysis 10: “Principles of Economics...
...website allows students to access a greater variety of academic information—such as a summary of progress toward completing Core requirements—than previously available online...
...President Bush's personal favorite, Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Still, neither Falconer's nor Carle's works are being spun into anything nearly so ambitious as the Sunny Patch brand, Miss Spider's line of goods. Target, Callaway and Kirk think that doesn't matter. "Our core guest [i.e., customer] is a busy mom with young children. She's highly educated," says Sally Mueller, Target's director of marketing planning. "Many of our core guests have read David Kirk's books, so we thought it was a logical connection." In other words, why should TV have...
...monks sitting in the Himalayan snow, warming cold towels draped over their shoulders and back with body heat generated by meditation, you have seen at work the power of the mind over the body. The monks can manipulate their metabolism to redirect the body's energy from warming its core to heating its surface; the drop in internal metabolic rate is well documented. Similar results have been observed in studies of patients having surgery; patients who meditated experienced less operative bleeding than controls given placebos...
Common mental conditions, such as anxiety disorders, eating disorders and depression, can be thought of as a pathological rind wrapped around an intact core. Peel the skin away through talk therapy or melt it away with drugs, and the problem may abate. Personality disorders, by contrast, are marbleized through the entire temperament. Narcissists may be self-absorbed, but they believe they jolly well have a right to be. Histrionic personalities may make too much of things, but how else can they be heard? It's hard enough to persuade most people to see a therapist--harder still when the patient...