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...Neither tactic had much effect. Before one match, the then Sydney Roosters coach Ricky Stuart spent hours with his players analyzing Johns' moves on tape. Stuart thought he'd found a way to thwart him. But after 10 minutes' play, Johns had made fools of his opposition...
...senior in high school, Kay Redfield Jamison spent her days contemplating killing herself. At age 28, after years of debilitating depression, she overdosed on lithium in a suicide attempt that landed her in a coma. Last night, Jamison, now a Johns Hopkins Medical School psychiatry professor specializing in bipolar disorder, reflected on her own struggles with manic depression. She told a crowd of mostly students that the widespread reluctance to come forward with mental health issues is a major public health problem. “Such privacy and reticence can kill,” she said, noting that many people...
...addition to the COUR dinner, Faust spent spring break at an international Harvard Alumni Association conference in Toronto and back-to-back meetings with alumni and donors on the West Coast, including in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Many present as those events said she left a positive impression, even with those who strongly supported Summers...
...similar study, published in December, Thompson and Tebbens, a research associate in the School of Public Health’s Department of Health Policy and Management, reported that the United States spent nearly $35 billion on polio vaccinations between 1955 and 2005. The researchers found that if vaccinations stopped, 1.1 million cases of the disease could erupt in the United States alone, ultimately costing the country $180 billion more than if the original policy were maintained. [SEE CORRECTIONS BELOW...
...place that seems to pride itself on its intelligence, far too many assumed I was a Bush supporter who spent her days in Texas riding a horse and eating tons of beef. For the record, I didn’t vote for Bush, I’m allergic to horses, and I’m a vegetarian. And while I may use the word “y’all,” I can at least pronounce my r’s, which is more than I can say for the majority of New Englanders...