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...such ideas are still guesswork. "If we really want to understand these people and develop good ways to prevent pedophilia, we need a national demographic survey," says Berlin. "The funding is minuscule, so the research is incomplete." And politically fraught. Everyone who works in the field constantly negotiates America's discomfort with children and sex. Yet understanding child sexual abuse means not only exploring its prevalence, causes and treatments--issues that focus on the abuser--but finding the best way to help victims cope as well. And that research is positively radioactive...
...years, frogs with missing legs or extra eyes have been turning up in ponds across the U.S. Now scientists wonder if trace amounts of weed killer in rainwater may be partly to blame. A new report shows that male frogs exposed to altrazine--the best-selling agricultural herbicide--can develop multiple male sex organs or both male and female organs. Scientists think that even low concentrations of the weed killer--one-thirtieth the level allowed in drinking water--can cause the male hormone testosterone to morph into the female hormone estrogen. Does altrazine affect humans? No one really knows...
Despite a recent capital campaign that boosted the number of faculty, GSE needs money and space, and administrators say that the future of the school depends on its ability to raise its profile and develop joint programs with other parts of Harvard...
Lagemann says that she would like to see the school develop more joint programs with Harvard’s graduate schools and the College...
McKinley says that seems like a long time ago now. She is one of roughly 20 students at Harvard who is pursing a special concentration, a degree program that allows her to develop a uniquely personal field of study. McKinley currently studies “Culture, Disease and Public Health,” a field that allows her to consider questions such as the worldwide AIDS epidemic from cultural and social perspectives. Her Harvard experience these days is anything but impersonal, as she has already designed five classes that meet her unique interests. She has also changed her formerly large...