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...primarily annoyed with the portrayal of Stebbins as the stereotypical Harvard student who is unable to think or talk about anything but her schoolwork. While there is a sizable population of students who really cannot talk about anything else, there are also many of us who, by some bizarre stroke of luck or imagination, manage to go to class and do our schoolwork while still cultivating friendships whose bases extend far beyond mutual self-absorbed commiseration. I also did not sit for any final exams this semester, but, after finishing my work early in the month, I was somehow able...
...human health.” In fact, trans fats decrease levels of HDL ‘good’ cholesterol and increase levels of LDL ‘bad’ cholesterol in the body. This directly increases a person’s risk of heart disease and stroke...
...tantalizing glimpse of a man minding his own cheerful-seeming business, playing a graceful front man for Faberg cosmetics, doting on his fifth wife, Barbara, and his daughter Jennifer, 20, by his marriage to Actress Dyan Cannon. It was more than usually shocking in his sudden death of a stroke last week as he prepared for a charity appearance in Davenport, Iowa. One thought he might even elude mortality...
...doctrine of the unchanging human brain has had profound ramifications. For one thing, it lowered expectations about the value of rehabilitation for adults who had suffered brain damage from a stroke or about the possibility of fixing the pathological wiring that underlies psychiatric diseases. And it implied that other brain-based fixities, such as the happiness set point that, according to a growing body of research, a person returns to after the deepest tragedy or the greatest joy, are nearly unalterable...
...visual or auditory cortex can change as a result of a person's experience of becoming deaf or blind at a young age. Even when the brain suffers a trauma late in life, it can rezone itself like a city in a frenzy of urban renewal. If a stroke knocks out, say, the neighborhood of motor cortex that moves the right arm, a new technique called constraint-induced movement therapy can coax next-door regions to take over the function of the damaged area. The brain can be rewired...