Word: developer
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...have let me do what I did," says concentrator Jennifer T. Kennedy '90 of her thesis on Jean Jacques Rousseau's dogs, for which she won a Hoopes Prize. "I don't think that anywhere else would I have found that kind of trustfulness--they completely allowed me to develop in any direction I wanted...
...combination of the fact that they allow you to work independently, and that they all know you personally," Kennedy says, explaining the tremendous success of her fellow graduates. "The department made a huge effort to develop individually tailored programs...
Students say that Women's Studies is such a tight-knit community that they often develop relationships with faculty that they are not formally studying with. More than one student recalls instances when professors they did not even know approached them to comment on work they had done...
Critics charge that Carnes has vandalized the scientific concept of addiction and is using it to develop a pop psychology. They say the treatment does not necessarily get at the root cause of the behavior and may harm some people more than help them. "Addiction is used so interchangeably with everything that it loses its meaning," says Robert Csandl, who runs sex- offender and substance-abuse treatment programs in Allentown, Pa. "Even if you're using the word addiction metaphorically, it blurs good assessment, which is essential to starting appropriate treatment." Johns Hopkins researcher John Money sees the focus...
...unexpected problems. In 1986 Dan and Rhonda Stanton adopted a blond baby girl they named Stacey Rene. "We thought we had a perfect baby because she didn't cry," says Dan, an insurance agent in suburban Dallas. Their contentment faded as the months passed and Stacey did not develop properly. She didn't babble and laugh like their friends' babies and couldn't pinch with her individual fingers. The tentative diagnosis: Rett's syndrome, a rare genetic disorder in which the brain stops growing. Devastated, the Stantons took Stacey back to the agency and have not seen her since...