Word: developments
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...University’s future campus in Allston will still feature a contemporary art museum and stem cell research facilities, University officials told a group of Allston residents last night. The presentation to the Harvard-Allston Task Force suggests that momentum is building for the University’s development of its land holdings across the Charles River, though planners expressed some frustration with the slow pace of Harvard’s decision-making process, mentioning several times their attempts to pressure the University to come to a decision about the ideas it has been batting around since last spring...
...Doctors at the Corpus Christi hospital will be watching to make sure Mr. Whittington does not develop ventricular fibrillation, a more serious type of irregular heartbeat that can be fatal within minutes. "It will stay a minor problem as long as the arrhythmia stays under control, the heart muscle hasn't suffered permanent damage, he doesn't have a further ongoing heart attack, and there's no fluid building up around the heart," says Dr. Soumi Eachempati, a trauma surgeon at New York Hospital in New York City. Assuming nothing else goes wrong, however, Whittington should be able...
...beliefs: Do you really screw up at work all the time, or like most people, do you excel sometimes and fail sometimes? Is everyone really looking at your stomach, or are you overgeneralizing about the way people see you? The idea is that the therapist will help the patient develop new, more realistic beliefs...
...just as cognitive therapy didn't simply pop into Beck's head when he learned to master his tunnel phobia, ACT is more than the sum of Hayes' experiences. As Hayes' anxiety condition improved in the '80s, he worked with scores of clients and students in his lab to develop the therapy. The lab did studies showing how humans narrow the range of their behaviors based on rules they hear, even in situations where rules hurt them. For instance, Hayes conducted experiments showing that subjects who could have earned more money for doing simple tasks (like moving a light around...
Japan seems to have averted the prospect of revolutionary change. In January 2005, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appointed a panel to develop suggestions for warding off a looming succession crisis in the imperial family. By law and eons of tradition, the Japanese throne can pass only to males with emperors on the father's side. But no boys have been born into the family since 1965. Crown Prince Naruhito, 45, and his wife Masako, 42, have had only one daughter, 4-year-old Aiko. Naruhito's brother, Prince Akishino, 40, and his wife, Kiko, 39, have two daughters. So Koizumi...