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...Green freshman center Elise Morrison’s 30-point performance against the Crimson two months ago led many pundits to brand her the heir apparent to Peljto’s throne as the Ancient Eight’s preeminent player. But much of the success Morrison realized in Dartmouth’s overtime victory at Lavietes Pavilion came as a result of Harvard’s unfamiliarity with her game...
...Domini Social Investments, which manages $1.8 billion, jolted P&G, the nation's biggest coffee company, with a shareholder resolution demanding that it consider Fair Trade. After protest rallies and a grass-roots campaign, P&G last September launched a Fair Trade line under its gourmet Millstone brand. So far, it is sold only by mail order, but P&G signed an agreement with activists to begin offering it in thousands of supermarkets. Says P&G spokeswoman Tonia Hyatt: "We have a goal of being a leading Fair Trade seller...
...imaging scanner (fMRI). His name is not actually Stephen; he's a composite research subject. Glimcher is at the frontal lobe of an intriguing network of brain researchers and economists who are using advanced medical technology to try to figure out why people make the decisions they do--what brand of cereal, which mutual fund--and what part of the brain tells them to do so. "We're much further along with monkeys because we can use [implanted] electrodes and measure single neurons," Glimcher says. In experiments, computer data will tell him what a monkey is going to do seconds...
...points to the Guggenheim museum as an example of “expansionist mode” gone awry. Once the Guggenheim had solidified an international brand name for itself, it cut its staff in half, and saw substantially less growth in its endowment than other museums. By contrast, Cuno says, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago have maintained high popularity while continuing to produce research and scholarship...
...directed workers from her office underneath the dining hall during a Monday morning breakfast, she paused to tell FM about the brand new cereal bins being installed...