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...member of the British Columbia Winter Games Zone team and played in both the Canada Winter Games and the National U-18 Championship. She also attended the Calgary National U-19 camps, earning the bronze medal while at the Junior Women’s Hockey League (JWHL) Challenge Cup.“She really wanted to come to Harvard,” Stone says. “It was a matter of us being able to make that happen, and she was always committed to coming here. She’s had some good opportunities, and I think it?...
...October 30, 1938. A Sunday night. About 8 p.m. You're sitting in your living room. Possibly in an easy chair. Maybe the lights are off and there's a cup of tea on the table by your side. The radio dial casts a dim glow. You're relaxed, listening to the immensely popular Chase and Sanborn Hour, starring Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. It's weird, listening to a ventriloquist and his dummy on the radio - how can you be sure Bergen's not cheating? - but the two of them are funny enough. A few minutes pass before some...
...party-registration forms, would be treated to a list of “tips to minimize the environmental impact of your party.” The socially-conscious lights who devised this counsel absurdly suggest that hosts should “encourage attendees to bring their own cup or mug,” or “alternatively, try to have people use just one cup,” “strategically place” trash and recycling bins “clearly labeled (even with samples of what goes in),” and “serve...
...some helpful scientific advice: When that IRS agent comes to your office to conduct an audit, offer him a cup of coffee. And when you're sitting down to do your holiday shopping online, make sure you're cradling a large glass of iced tea. The physical sensation of warmth encourages emotional warmth, while a chilly drink in hand serves as a brake on rash decisions - those are the practical lesson being drawn from recent research by two Yale-educated psychologists, published last week in Science magazine...
...between physical and psychological warmth, the researchers conducted two experiments. The first involved a group of 41 undergraduates who were taken by elevator to a fourth floor room. During the ride, a research assistant who was unaware of the study's hypotheses, handed the test subject either a hot cup of coffee, or a cold drink, to hold while the researcher filled out a short information form on a clipboard. The drink was then handed back. When the subjects arrived at the testing room, they were presented with a personality profile describing "Person A" and asked to rate that person...