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...re a middle-ager, it's increasingly likely that you or one of your friends will run a marathon. Folks in the 40-plus group are pretty much taking over the sport, accounting for a surprising 43% of all marathoners in the U.S. in 2004--up from 26% in 1980. The maturing baby-boom generation partly explains that growth. There are simply more folks over 40 out there. Yet there's more than demographics at work. Surging interest in marathons at middle age and beyond testifies to our longer, healthier lives and our growing determination to get the most...
...Students for Israel, noted it was “something the College should’ve done in the past.”In the same week, the Leadership Institute also hosted an interactive “team strategies” session led by Lecturer on Sociology David Laurence Ager and HBS Professor of Business Administration Amy C. Edmondson ’80, in which groups of students from all walks of Harvard co-curricular life discovered better ways to tackle group dynamic challenges. Tonight, in Currier House, the LIHC is hosting the last of its public speaking seminars held...
Still, anecdotal accounts from professors are hard to ignore. Lecturer on Sociology David L. Ager slammed the Coop in class for marking up the coursepack for Sociology 109, “Leadership and Organizations,” by more than 20 percent. Associate Professor Eric W. Robinson of History 10a, “Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures from Antiquity to 1650,” said in one of his first lectures that he expected the coursepack to cost $50. The Coop ended up selling it for $80. Every Harvard student is familiar with the endless litany of professorial rage...
...incredibly hard to clear my mind and relax. Expecting to find an ally in Alex, I vented after the first session about the silliness of imagining myself floating on rainbow clouds of mist. "Don't focus on the language," Alex said, sounding for all the world like a New Ager instead of a neurologist. "Focus on the intent." After a few weeks of practice on the subway, I could get to the end of taped 15-minute exercises and have no recollection of the train's having stopped. In our third of five sessions, Fremon pinched me while...
...last week says 1 in 5 retired Americans ages 50 to 75 work for pay; 42% of those not yet retired have plans to do so; 60% of both groups do volunteer work. Some reasons: longer active life and healthier self-esteem. Respondents' least favorite labels: "elderly" and "golden ager...