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...International Ice Hockey Federation in Zurich has already warned clubs against overspending. "Many clubs are treating this extraordinary situation as if there was no tomorrow," says spokesman Szymon Szemberg. "It's like pennies from heaven. Nobody can really blame you for stuffing your pockets, but you shouldn't adjust your lifestyle according to this." Szemberg says increased ticket sales and sponsorship are unlikely to cover the extra cost of the players. Can this reunion last past the NHL lockout? Russian hockey legend Alexei Kasatonov, who now trains teams in New York City, seems to think so. "If a salary ceiling...
...policies without apparent regard for performance, lay at the heart of the demands for contrition. His critics deplored the stubbornness that often prevents him from stretching beyond the limits of his experience. When it comes to setting policy, they argued, the risks of shutting out dissent and refusing to adjust course have become increasingly clear. But when it comes to running for office, his aides felt, there was a great advantage in having a candidate who set a strategy and then stuck to it as well as to his team...
...scientists had 11 volunteers play a simple video game that required them to reach for objects on the screen with a mouse-controlled cursor. What the volunteers didn't realize was that the game sometimes introduced a slight bias to the cursor's motion, forcing them to adjust their movements. Half the group slept between sessions and the other half did not. Among the sleepers, the part of the brain that was learning to compensate for the bias while awake turned out to have the largest slow waves during sleep. "The bigger the slow waves were in that part...
...There’s an international organization [Woodbridge] but no international student counseling to help you adjust to this place,” says Kanittha Tambunlertchai ’05, a native of Thailand...
...center was quick to adjust to her new surroundings. Her teammates and roommates agree that her sense of humor was already well-developed by the time she arrived at school. Hana Peljto ’04 says that before Harvard’s NCAA tournament game against North Carolina during Cserny’s freshman year, Cserny sent out an e-mail to the team impersonating one of the more famous Tar Heel alums...