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...Yichen Shen ’10. “[The renovations] might increase my chances of going but I don’t think it would.” Justin T. Keenan ’10 agreed, saying he is an occasional visitor, and that such modifications would not affect the frequency of his visits to the Museums. “Theoretically, I would visit them no more than I do now,” he said. “I like the museums enough that I don’t mind the walk between them...
...delivered a customized version of the most famous PowerPoint presentation ever developed, and since, he's given his talk to nearly 10,000 people, mostly high school students. Francis persuades his teenage peers to realize that global warming, far from being a threat of the distant future, will directly affect them. "This problem is my problem," says Francis, who speaks with a precision that reminds me of, well, Gore, without the Tennessee twang. "It's not abstract for us. The effects will be felt in our lifetime...
...close to the [Housing Authority] budget for one individual,” he said. “If in fact [larceny] did take place, it has denied one individual of affordable housing.” But Murphy said that the alleged larceny was an isolated incident and would not affect city policy. Greg Russ, the executive director of the Housing Authority, said he could not comment on the case because the investigation was ongoing, but that the accused employee had been fired. Gomes is scheduled to appear at a hearing on June 19, where a date...
Virtual behavior may even affect real-world health. Stanford graduate student Jesse Fox randomly assigned avatars to 75 volunteers and divided them into three groups: one group watched their look-alike avatars run on treadmills for about five and a half minutes; another group saw their virtual counterparts lounge around; and a third watched avatars who did not look like them, but were of the same age and sex, run on treadmills. A day later, Fox found that participants who watched avatars of their own likeness exercising had themselves exercised an hour more in the intervening 24-hour period than...
...bill] would offer more generous mental health benefits to Americans," said Sonya D. Sotak, director of federal affairs for drugmaker Eli Lilly, "but it risks doing so on the backs of the sickest and poorest Americans." Rep. John Sullivan, a Republican from Oklahoma, admitted the changes could adversely affect the pharmaceutical (a clause in the House bill could force drugmakers to lower prices) and health care industries but decided to support the bill anyway. "Each year the economic cost of untreated mental illness is staggering - over $100 billion on untreated mental health disorders and $400 billion on addiction disorders," Sullivan...