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...surprising that the hormone responds to the trials of financial markets. More remarkable, perhaps, is that no one had previously worked out how, especially considering the known risks - sensation-seeking and impulsivity among them - associated with persistently high levels of the hormone. The increased levels measured in Cambridge's brief study might have been acute, as opposed to chronic. And the research was carried out during a relatively calm period in the markets. But consider what scientists call the "winner effect": two athletes preparing to compete against one another will both experience rising testosterone levels. After the race, though, only...
Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, is currently a visiting spring fellow at the Institute of Politics (IOP). The Crimson sat down with Edwards for a brief interview on her last day on campus...
...sense “a newborn connection that could not be left unattended” and embark on a bittersweet affair. Their identity as a couple is fragile, though, and soon broken apart, as Hema moves on to her arranged marriage in India and Kaushik to Thailand for a brief vacation en route to his new job in Hong Kong. While the longer format of the stories in “Unaccustomed Earth” allows Lahiri to more thoroughly investigate her themes, occasionally her structure collapses underneath the weight of the accumulated detail. Fortunately, such lapses do not detract...
...tell you unless you ask her.” Before beginning the discussion of the proposal, Professor of German Peter J. Burgard elected to take the initiative. “The obvious question is, do we have a quorum?” Burgard asked, setting in motion a brief flurry of activity at the front of the Faculty Room, where Bisson, smiling, rose to tear a sheet of paper off of her small yellow notebook pad. Examining the sheet, University President Drew G. Faust conferred briefly with the meeting’s acting parliamentarian, Chinese History Professor Peter...
...Armageddon was a brief stopover a few days ago for a contingent of Christians led by the Texas televangelist Pastor John Hagee, who believes that doomsday is nigh. In his recent book Jerusalem Countdown, which has sold 1.4 million copies, Hagee uses contemporary news events, such as the threat of a nuclear Iran, to describe the lead-up to a war in which the Russian and Arab armies invade Israel and are destroyed by God in a terrible battle on this very spot...