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...hockey." Even when siblings play the same sport, they play it differently. Sulloway is currently collaborating on a study of 300 brothers who were major league ballplayers. Though the work is not complete, he is so far finding that the elder brothers excel at skills that involve less physical danger. Younger siblings are the ones who put themselves in harm's way-crouching down in catcher's gear to block an incoming runner, say. "It doesn't just hold up in this study but a dozen studies," Sulloway says...
...prepared to run that danger,” he said. “I am willing to be quoted out of context, as I do with each time I speak with The Crimson...
...almost supernatural somehow.”“It was addressed to ‘My dear Sir,’” Faust said in the speech, causing the audience to erupt into laughter and applause. “Conant wrote with a sense of imminent danger. He feared an impending World War III that would make, as he put it, ‘the destruction of our cities including Cambridge quite possible.’”And while Conant, according to Faust, expressed confidence that Harvard would uphold the same core values...
Deep within the bowels of the building at 10 Holyoke Street dangles a cardboard poster bearing the words, “Danger: Live Steam!” Set among gently whirring machinery and a maze of gleaming white pipes, the excitement of the sign’s tone is a much more apt description of what is going on upstairs...
...chorus. Established by the U.N. in 1988 as the final scientific authority on global warming, the IPCC has issued four assessments - the most recent this year - taking the current temperature of climate change. Reading the successive reports, which grow more and more confident about the reality and the danger of climate change, is like seeing an image fall into focus. Drawing on the work of so many scientists, which must then be approved by national representatives, the IPCC tends to the conservative - so its dire conclusions are all the more authoritative and chilling. But global warming is global...