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...rest of us, since millions of people pray for the health of their King or Queen every day. His research showed just the opposite - no surprise, perhaps, given the rich diet and extensive leisure that royal families enjoy. An oft discussed 1988 study by cardiologist Randolph Byrd of San Francisco General Hospital found that heart patients who were prayed for fared better than those who were not. But a larger study in 2005 by cardiologist Herbert Benson at Harvard University challenged that finding, reporting that complications occurred in 52% of heart-bypass patients who received intercessory prayer...
With books tucked neatly on the shelves and a comfy purple-dragon rug in a back-corner nook, the library at San Diego's Willard B. Hage Elementary School is the perfect place for children to fall in love with reading. Since the start of the school year, however, the library has been off-limits to students, who get to go there only when (already overworked) teachers can escort them and handle the record-keeping. "With all of the cutbacks we've had in the last few years, the district can't pay for someone to help check out books...
...capita. Why do you think Bostonians are turning to the web for love? No skills on the streets? SY: Not at all—I think it’s because Bostonions tend to be pretty Web savvy. They’re young, single, and technologically savvy. Imagine San Antonio, not a super young or wired population, where you wouldn’t have a huge Internet culture. It also helps that it’s so cold, because you can be like “it’s a little cold, why don’t we stay...
...later became a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, where he befriended Obama. Last year he left the University of Chicago to return to Cambridge and took up a post advising Obama during his presidential campaign. David A. Schkade, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, says he marveled at Sunstein’s work ethic, having worked with him to study the unpredictability of punitive damages in legal cases. “We’d have a conversation on Thursday and by Saturday night there’d be a 15-page draft...
America saw its first Asian American mayor in San Jose, California in 1971, just a year after Kennedy School alum Sam Yoon was born in Seoul, South Korea. In November 2005, Yoon was elected a city councilor at-large—making him the first Asian American elected to office in Boston, in addition to the only Asian American to ever run for public office in the city. Now, Yoon has announced his intention to run for mayor of Boston against incumbent Thomas M. Menino, the longest-serving mayor in the city’s history...