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...Type A” personalities. Nearly all of the friends and classmates to whom I spoke pointed to self-imposed expectations as a cause of the intense atmosphere on campus, an atmosphere not often conducive to happiness. By transforming it from a subconscious desire to a self-conscious necessity, the aggressive nature of Harvard students ironically makes happiness more difficult to attain. One student explained that he felt obligated to go to as many dinners, seminars, and speaker events as possible, simply to avoid “shortchanging” his college experience. Hearing this, I couldn?...
...SAMUEL ALDERSON, 90, inventor who created the first automobile crash test dummy, an articulated model of an adult male used to measure car safety; in Los Angeles. After developing dummies to test parachutes and jet ejection seats, he refined his work to suit the needs of the increasingly safety-conscious auto industry, introducing the first dummy specifically for cars, called...
...NASA and the U.S. military who created the first crash test dummy-an anthropomorphic duplication of an adult male used to measure car safety; in Los Angeles. After developing dummies to test jet ejection seats and parachutes, he refined his work to suit the needs of the increasingly safety-conscious auto industry, introducing the first dummy specifically for cars, called the "V.I.P...
...ranging from tamari (a wheat-free soy sauce) to tagines, most of fusion's earliest supporters in Singapore have turned turtle. "It simply doesn't work," says Gunther Hubrechsen, chef at Les Amis, arguably Singapore's best French restaurant. Part of the reason is simple snob value. To class-conscious Singaporeans, fusion cuisine has become down-market. How could it be otherwise, when it's the mundane fodder of food courts? Pandan tuna wraps, Peking duck pizzas and (the horror! The horror!) green-tea frappuccinos are freely available. So are Singapore's traditional syncretic cuisines. Long before fusion godfather Jean...
...Safety-conscious students, or those whose doors are locked, will receive congratulatory notes slipped under their doors, while those failing the randomly assigned spot checks will be greeted with cautionary notes...