Forgotten already?

Happiness: enough already.

The plural of anecdote is not data, as scientists will tell you, but consider these snapshots of the emerging happiness debate anyway: Lately, Jerome Wakefield's students have been coming up to him after they break up with a boyfriend or girlfriend, and not because they want him to recommend a therapist. Wakefield, a professor at New York University, coauthored the 2007 book "The Loss of Sadnes...

Vitamin D: enough already?

Q&A: Already A Success?

When Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster (the organizer of this COLING-86 panel on "Natural Language Interfaces: Ready for Commercial Success?") sent out invitations to panelists, he stated that his goals were "to evaluate three natural language interfaces which were introduced to the commercial market in 1985 and to relate them to current research in computational linguistics." For comparison, he has aske...

Forgotten Men

This is a most worth-while volume, that should be read by social workers in particular and humanitarians in general. Within small bulk, it lays bare, without offence to those who are labouring now in this field, the great need of the inhabitants of Common Lodging Houses, to be understood in the first place, and to be given the help they so sorely need, in the second. The survey is well planned,...

Forgotten Teenagers

almost 7,500 young people (between the ages of JO and 20) were admitted to mental illness hospitals 'n 1966?the last year for which figures are available. On the face of it the figure may not seem very large when compared with the total population of this age group (6,976,400) but it is a disturbing lumber simply because there are nothing like enough suitable facilities available for the treatm...