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...examples you provide is that you can determine what alcoholic drinks people prefer on the basis of their TRAITS. Hamilton: Having already taken into account age, income and gender, we can ask you a bunch of questions like how frequently you exercise, how frequently you go to the dentist each year, whether you consider the resale value of your car when you make a purchase - things that deal with the future. [Placing a high value on the future is] associated with driving a hybrid car and drinking red wine. Folks high on the me-Too factor drink whatever people around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Make Decisions | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

According to Melissa Tran ’10, President of Act on a Dream, Harvard’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” financial aid policy gives undocumented students the opportunity to attend the college. “Not a lot of people know that there are undocumented students at Harvard. Our idea is that they’re just as American...

Author: By Sophie O. Duvernoy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Documentary Urges Immigrant Rights | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

STAND members were asked to vote online to select five questions Amjadi would ask Gration and Power...

Author: By Julia L Ryan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior Meets With Top Policy Officials | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

Members voted for Amjadi to ask the two administrators about issues ranging from how the administration would increase specificity and transparency to when people in refugee camps might be able to return home and how genocide might be prevented in the future...

Author: By Julia L Ryan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior Meets With Top Policy Officials | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...complicate a hostage situation in which 36 men are held captive on a boat by machine-gun-wielding pirates? Just ask the Spanish government. On Oct. 2, pirates hijacked the Alakrana, a Basque fishing vessel that was trawling in the Indian Ocean. A day later, the Spanish navy arrested two of the presumed pirates and deported them for trial in Madrid. That might have been a triumph for law and order, had the rest of the pirate gang not still been aboard the Alakrana, holding its crew captive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pirate Capture Complicates Hostage Issue | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

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