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...still reading this article - and chances are greater if you're older than 34 - you may be wondering whether there's a cure for newstritional disorder. The study's recommendation is, in essence, more of what's causing the problem in the first place: "quick delivery and quick-scan consumption," news that can be taken in at a glance. The new bite-size media model is to reduce the news fat, cut back on content, and create tasty treats that requires fewer mental calories to digest...
...name is Dan, and I’m a Boston sports fan. It’s been four days since my last trip to Fenway.(Hi, Dan.)It wasn’t always this way. For 18 years I didn’t even know I had a problem. They were simpler times, growing up in Cambridge; every sports fan I knew liked the Red Sox, every sports fan I knew liked the Patriots, and the only subject of debate was whether Tom Brady was the greatest quarterback of all time, or merely the greatest quarterback of his generation...
...Merck Pharmaceuticals and Vittori will begin a master’s degree program at Lehigh University. Hetrick said he “probably logged 20,000 miles” on his car this year shuttling between Pennsylvania and Cambridge, but Vittori said the distance wasn’t a problem because they communicate so well...
...felonies and misdemeanors of released offenders to be available far too long after the offense, prohibiting these citizens from reentering an honest occupation. This results in the re-arrest of over two thirds of releasees within just three years. Gov. Patrick also developed praiseworthy policy solutions to address this problem, authoring the CORI reform bill that, if passed, would lower the sealing of felony records from 15 years to just 10, and records for committers of misdemeanors from 10 years to just five. By organizing an intercollegiate protest and encouraging campus activity relating to CORI reform, Harvard students have shown...
...teachers will not be teaching in Spanish, they will have the language skills necessary to help students whose first language is Spanish grapple with concepts that are too complicated for them to understand in English. While this movement should be supported, however, it is not a cure for the problem of minority students falling behind in public schools. A more concerted effort should be made to channel the best native bilingual college students into the teaching profession, in order to serve as role models for younger, bilingual students...