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...ostensibly for a general audience, a reader must know a great deal about literature to understand all of Bloom’s points. Yet it is still possible to appreciate his analyses with only a fraction of the breadth of his knowledge, especially since Bloom ties many of the crucial ideas to more observable historical phenomena, including American history...
...considering that Byrd’s pre-Harvard goalie experience was limited to one quarter during a high school contest—where Byrd’s team also had a huge lead—starting in goal for the crucial Northerns contests was, to say the least, a completely new situation...
...only accountable for stopping shots, but has to help coordinate the defense and constantly communicate with the offense information like the amount of time remaining on the shot clock. Byrd is settling into his position and learning how to speak up from the goal, which will be crucial at Easterns...
...what are we doing? What are we accomplishing by not sleeping? Sleep deprivation certainly doesn’t do anything for our physical appearance—getting a good night’s rest is crucial for good skin and surprisingly enough, for losing weight. Besides making you look like a train-wreck, sleep deprivation can make you feel disgusting as well: a lack of rest increases stress levels and reduces that elusive productivity that we’re all so worried about...
Video-game abuse has become a career these days, a crucial part of the $11 billion video-game industry. Hanson is a quality-assurance tester, who plays through every conceivable video-game scenario, looking for bugs, or problems, in a program before they hit the real world. Testers report glitches--a character walking offscreen, for example--to their company's programming department, which repairs the game's computer code. Then the game goes back to the testing department for further scrutiny, and the cycle repeats, often for months, until the game is bug free. "Testers are a special breed," says...