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...permitted for part of the year in adjoining Heilongjiang province and some Oroqen still head to the mountains to poach, hunting is vanishing as a way of life. For a people whose culture is based on the nomadic pursuit of game, the effect has been devastating. "They can't adjust to the rhythm of modern life," says Baiyaertu's son Bai Ying, 46, who works as a painter and cultural researcher in Beijing. "They can't farm, so they drink every...
Gilbert presents three main explanations for errors in affective forecasting. First, the human imagination works too well, prompting people to adjust their images of the future, fabricating some details while removing others. This results in overly optimistic predictions: our birthdays, for example, are never as fun as our imagination predicts or our memory recalls...
...happy that we sailed so consistently,” Wareham said. “We definitely had to change how we were handling the boat. On Sunday, it did get light again by the end of the day…so we had to be quick to adjust...
...Zelesky, associate dean of students at Clark University in Massachusetts, which is 60-40 female. "Do we need to concentrate more on traditional masculine words--'Be a leader on campus,' as opposed to 'Come join our team'?" He's launching a "men helping men" support program to help boys adjust to their minority status...
...economically and environmentally to shorten the distance that a golf ball is allowed to travel. "I love that Augusta has succeeded in ensuring that players have the same experience there as I did," says three-time Masters champion and course designer Gary Player. "But the reason the tournament can adjust is because it has a massive amount of money. Wouldn't it make more sense to just change the golf ball rather than the whole course?" There's certainly some precedent for such a move: in 1986, changes were made to the aerodynamics of javelins amid fears that they would...