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...over-specialize, or add another line to one’s résumé at the expense of other interests and electives. We hope that the Faculty, house tutors, and other advisers will work proactively so that students do not treat taking on a secondary field as a default path...
Perhaps the most startling fact about the dark network isn't what it does but how often it does it. Neuroscientists refer to it as the brain's default mode, which is to say that we spend more of our time away from the present than in it. People typically overestimate how often they are in the moment because they rarely take notice when they take leave. It is only when the environment demands our attention--a dog barks, a child cries, a telephone rings--that our mental time machines switch themselves off and deposit us with a bump...
...RAPS, SO HIS DEBUT GOT FILED under hip-hop by default. But this Chicago-born Jay-Z protégé relies on orchestral swells far more than beats, and his subjects range from an indictment of rap fantasies ("Now come on everybody, let's make cocaine cool/ We need a few more half-naked women up in the pool") to a gentle skateboard romance as innocent and sincere as Annette Funicello...
...critics say some of this success is due not to globalization but to the local political clout these large firms wield, yielding favorable government treatment--everything from default forgiveness on bank loans to airbrushing competition regulations. Their heft makes them effective bullies. After Fox took office in 2000, promising a new era, several younger Cemex execs decided to take him at his word and struck out on their own, competing against their former employer by importing cheaper cement from Russia. Their boat got tied up in every port, and after months of harassment, they took their business to Africa. Oligopolistic...
...wouldn’t object. We also want to put in a plug that we’re looking for interns. If you don’t include that in the article you can have the info to yourself and you can take advantage of it. You could by default get it. 12.FM: What would being an intern for you guys entail?C: It would probably just involve doing the same research that we do—calling newspapers, e-mailing people on campus, looking for story ideas. N: The pay is nothing, but the emotional reward for putting...