Word: boastful
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...know who has a mind? According to responses to an online survey conducted by the Harvard Psychology Department, we believe people with minds boast two attributes: agency and experience. “The common perception was that an adult human had the most mind and there’s a little less when you get to a baby, even less when you get to a man in a vegetative state, all the way down to a dead person when there’s no one there at all,” said Professor of Psychology and the senior author...
Poison isn’t very appetizing; unfortunately, it pervades much of the American diet. Trans fat, after all, is just a poison that happens to be cheaper to produce and boast a longer shelf life than healthier fats and oils. The New York City Board of Health in December voted to eliminate the substance from restaurants city-wide by 2008. The unprecedented ban should serve as an example for a similar Cambridge initiative...
...with all four years. I think the fact that we have each other keeps us going.” Harvard will look to carry its momentum to Princeton, N.J. for next weekend’s double-dual meet against Yale and the defending league champion Tigers. All three teams boast undefeated Ivy records. “[Princeton] took our title from us last year, so we want it back,” O’Reilly said. —Staff writer Rebecca A. Compton can be reached at compton@fas.harvard.edu...
Comparisons between India and China are probably inevitable. The Asian neighbors both boast more than a billion citizens, and both enjoy giddy economic growth rates. Both are also touted as future superpowers, although China is a lot closer to that status than India. But the two nations are also very different: one's an autocratic one-party state; the other a flawed but functioning democracy. Those differences have a huge impact on the way the two countries are growing. In simple terms, if China's rulers want to build a new highway they do. In India, well, it's more...
...changes took place in microscopic structures called telomeres, which are often compared to the plastic wrappers on the ends of shoelaces and which keep chromosomes from shredding. As a general rule, the youngest cells boast the longest telomeres. But telomeres in the more stressed-out moms were significantly shorter than those of their counterparts, making them, from a genetic point of view, anywhere from nine to 17 years older than their chronological...