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...announcement comes amidst what Faust called “the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression?? and follows months of University deliberation over its operating expenses and capital projects. Harvard has asked schools to institute a salary freeze for faculty and non-union staff and recently announced that it would offer some staff over the age of 55 buyout packages in an effort to reduce costs...
...going to be here.” After Harvard, Bernanke earned his Ph.D. at MIT, where he specialized in the monetary origins of the Great Depression. At a 2002 celebration for the economist Milton Friedman—who had long blamed poor monetary policy for exacerbating the Depression??Bernanke famously said, “Regarding the Great Depression, you are right, we did it. We are very sorry.” After finishing graduate school, Bernanke held teaching positions at MIT and Stanford Business School before taking a professorship at Princeton, where he would eventually ascend...
...facts about psychiatric disorders and medications. Antidepressants—that is, serotonin and serotonin-norepenephrine reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs and SNRIs—relieve symptoms of clinical depression by balancing levels of certain chemicals in the brain. Psychiatrists believe that if a person who does not suffer from clinical depression??that is, who has healthy brain chemistry—were to take an antidepressant, he would experience any number of negative side effects while not getting any benefit from the medication...
...recent column by Judith Warner in the New York Times, while psychiatrists are hard pressed to think of a patient who has asked without reason for an antidepressant, they can think of many patients who exhibit depressive symptoms who aren’t aware that there are treatments for depression??or even that it is an illness. As much as drug companies have been criticized for advertising their medications to the general public, we must acknowledge that the increased awareness of mental illness these ads have generated have had the positive effect of getting information about treatments...
...least, that’s according to the Heritage Foundation, which recently released a study that claims religious practice increases sexual satisfaction, and leads to more happiness and “hope,” less drug use and depression??and, for a limited time only, whiter teeth. With such manifold benefits, one wonders why anyone would forsake...