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...you’re kind of expecting [the possibility of poor conditions],” Grillo said. “Shuman’s 70 was awesome considering the conditions.” “I played well in the bad weather, and then we had a rain delay for about three hours,” Shuman said. “Coming out I played a little slowly for a few holes and then got increasingly better. I played well when the weather was nicer out, which is nice to see.” On Sunday, Shuman slipped...
Seniors were told they would be able to enter a lottery for tickets to three Red Sox games taking place next week, but a delay in the e-mails with links to the lottery may have put many seniors at a disadvantage in entering the lottery, and some students alleged the error was compounded by some seniors receiving early access to the Web site to participate...
...webmaster Darren He ’09 said the delay was caused by Harvard Computer Society work on the server...
...second part of the study, Francis' team looked at the same children two years later, at age 5. This time, the kids were tested on whether they could resist temptation and delay gratification from food. Each child was asked to pick a favorite among M&Ms, animal crackers and pretzels and was then placed in a room with two piles of the chosen snack - one large pile, one small. Before leaving the room, the experimenter told the children they could eat from the smaller pile at any time, but if they wanted to eat from the larger pile, they...
...second study, Lumeng found a similar association between the inability to delay gratification in 4-year-olds (again with favorite foods) and weight gain by age 11. Of the 805 children in the study, 47% had trouble with self-restraint; those kids were 30% more likely to be overweight seven years later, compared with other children in the study. The findings indicate that learning self-control may be an important way for children to manage their weight - a logical theory, familiar to anyone who has struggled with self-discipline and impulse regulation to keep from packing on the pounds...