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During the press conference introducing you as the Knicks coach, you talked about how much you value loyalty. Yet, in moving from job to job, you?ve often left players stranded. Isn?t that a bit hypocritical? Yeah, it is hypocritical. And I don?t like seeing players affected like that. It?s something that has troubled me, because you affect a lot of people?s lives with any decision you make. If I had my drothers all over again, I would have like to have been able to stay in one place. When you demand that out of your...
...University engineering professor Ron Mourant is currently being used at the University of Virginia's Driving Safety Laboratory. Equipped with a bucket seat and real car controls, the simulator offers drivers a virtual-reality road test. Some experts are worried that seniors' unfamiliarity with the high-tech setting may affect results, but others argue that simulators can project dangerous scenarios that would be unsafe on the road. Mourant views the simulator as a tool of persuasion: to help older drivers see their weaknesses and voluntarily stop driving...
...post will not affect Ruggie’s Harvard responsibilities, which also include teaching a course this spring on global governance...
Much as they have wondered for the past three months. A papacy is not a presidency, with every day's progress tallied obsessively on the march through a limited term. Yet scholars had hoped by now for a sense of how Benedict's new station would affect his theology and whether his avid pursuit of heretics as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith meant that heads would roll. Would there be more like Thomas Reese, the open-minded editor of the Jesuit magazine America, whose departure was apparently sealed with Benedict's election? When would...
...kids are overweight. It certainly doesn't help mice stay trim. In an experiment at the University of Cincinnati, mice that drank fructose-laced water ate less food, gained more weight and put on 90% more body fat than mice that drank only water. Scientists say fructose may affect metabolism in a way that favors fat storage, but that's sure to be disputed too. --By David Bjerklie