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Economists Lise Vesterlund of the University of Pittsburgh and Muriel Niederle of Stanford University conducted a study in which they assembled 40 men and 40 women, gave them five minutes to add up as many two-digit numbers as they could, and paid them 50˘ for each correct answer. The subjects were not competing against one another but simply playing against the house. Later, the game was changed to a tournament in which the subjects were divided into teams of two men or two women each. Winning teams got $2 per computation; losers got nothing. Men and women performed equally...
...couple have had a scholarly romance, which began when Pinker cited Goldstein’s correct use of the irregular past tense of the verb “to stride” in one of his books...
...Asked whether the figures on the flyer were correct, Gordon concedes some inaccuracy...
President George W. Bush shouldn't have been too surprised by the angry-and ultimately violent-welcome he received Friday at the 4th Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina. After pledging during his 2000 election campaign to correct Washington's indifference to Latin America, the President is viewed as having all but turned his back on the region after most Latin American capitals declined to back his invasion of Iraq. But Bush's hemispheric cold shoulder has backfired: It created a political vacuum that has been largely filled by neo-leftists like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez...
...members, almost a dozen of whom explicitly endorse the ideas presented here, is that the failure of the fall concert was not a circumstantial failure but an institutional one. Thirty-thousand dollars could have benefited students in any number of ways, and it is our responsibility to ensure that correct mechanisms are in place to prevent the squandering of such funds in the future.Lori M. Adelman ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Dunster House. Ryan M. Donovan ’07 is a government concentrator in Lowell House. Connor C. Wilson...