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Granted, what defines very sad and long is fuzzy. Unlike other illnesses, there’s no blood test for depression or a surefire symptom checklist, so it’s better to err on the side of caution. And granted, some people can live with their depression and even achieve great things. For example, I know a Harvard undergrad who got straight A’s one semester while battling severe depression. Did his depression help him do well? Should he have refused to seek treatment...
...most observers, parental consent and notification laws offer scant opportunity for cooperation. Many in the pro-choice community consider these laws to be, in the words of Students for Choice Co-Director Rebecca P. Buckwalter ’08, “a symptom of the attack on reproductive rights, testament to widespread efforts to erode choice.” This view is hardly off the mark—many pro-life advocates have made the restriction of abortion their ultimate goal—but it ignores that supporters of parental involvement requirements generally have more immediate and agreeable ends...
...offensive slump, according to Brown, is merely a symptom of rust, and should dissipate with the fading winter...
...trouble Martin allegedly caused federal prosecutors - who have told the court they were unaware of her actions and will try next week to get Judge Leonie Brinkema to reverse her decision barring the seven witnesses' testimony - critics claim Martin is only one symptom of much deeper problems in the way the Justice Department has handled the high-profile terror case...
...there's much we still don't know about the relationship between brain reserve and dementia. No one can yet say for sure whether an elderly person's disinclination to mental exercise is a cause or a symptom of the disease. There's also uncertainty about whether high brain reserve helps prevent Alzheimer's telltale plaques and tangles from forming, or whether it minimizes their impact - or both. It's possible that high brain reserve fosters unusually sturdy neurons that allow the brain to carry on as usual despite the presence of plaques, much as some people can maintain their...