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Harvard College Library, whose administrators have spoken of the need to make organizational changes and "rebuild" after last month's staff reductions, has announced a series of minor service changes in the past few weeks affecting the Fung, Pusey, and Fine Arts Libraries. The Fung Library—which houses collections for the Weatherhead Center, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Documentation Center for Contemporary Japan, and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies—has restricted circulation of its collection materials to in-house use only, as of July 14. The library will no longer...
...Indeed, the Uighurs and the popular Islamist Muslim Brotherhood have much to commiserate over. The Uighurs complain of religious and cultural persecution and economic marginalization by China's Han-dominated government. Not unlike Egypt's heavy-handed treatment of the Brotherhood - which is banned from participating in politics, and whose members are frequently subject to arrests and interrogations - China also limits the Uighurs' international travel and maintains a degree of control over the sermons they provide at local mosques...
There is a certain four-letter word that evokes much emotion, is often uttered by mothers giving birth, and whose usage by humans is thought to be evolutionarily adaptive...
...fight or flight. But while it is typically fear that triggers the stress response, Stephens suggests the salient emotion in this case is not fear but aggression. "In swearing, people have an emotional response, and it's the emotional response that actually triggers the reduction of pain," says Stephens, whose next step is to research the relationship between induced aggression and reduction of pain. (In past studies, the opposite has been found: higher levels of pain tolerance predict heightened aggression...
...According to Nancy J. Tarbell, dean for academic and clinical affairs at HMS, the School had provided roughly $200,000 in funding each year to the Division. She said that the Division, which has not been disbanded but whose structure and administration is being reviewed, will remain affiliated with HMS. The Division has always been funded exclusively by the Medical School, according to HMS spokesman David J. Cameron...