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...They put us in this box, and we'll race like this until we kill somebody, and then they'll change it.' CARL EDWARDS, race-car driver, criticizing NASCAR for the design of the Talladega Superspeedway, after his car wrecked during the last lap of the Sprint Cup, injuring eight...
...Valsi, who played club lacrosse at the University of Maryland. “There’s a lot of branding built around surfing and skating. You know, niche sports?” Valsi saw a cultural dichotomy in lacrosse, and he said his main creative obstacle in the design process was negotiating that division. “Lacrosse started out as an Ivy League sport,” he said. “So part of it is very preppy. But another element is very laid back.” But Crimson lacrosse players were hesitant about that interpretation...
...health policy and management, who added that it is important to take into consideration exposure to violence when diagnosing patients. “I am quite confident that exposure to violence increases depression,” he said. Suglia cautioned that with all studies, confounding variables and sampling design can be a concern. The study tried to explicitly show that differences in exposure to violence were directly responsible for negative health-effects related to stress levels, but Suglia, said that “there is always the chance of some other type of violence exposure, some other form of stress...
...Alan Soh, a thirtysomething entrepreneur who runs his own six-person interior design firm, says his firm is coping too despite being closely tied to the recession-wracked construction industry. By temporarily switching his focus to aging buildings, where the volume is lower and margins are thinner, "I've managed to keep our business going," he says. Soh is guardedly optimistic about the future. "There are eight to nine thousand new [apartment] units being finished off this year and they're all going to need lighting fixtures and painting work," he says, which is one reason why he hasn?...
...inform visitors about the bank’s green practices and to open new accounts. The Harvard Square branch on Brattle Street—which has bamboo flooring, low-flow faucets and toilets, and low-energy heating and cooling—is currently awaiting Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification. “It’s a great way to get people aware,” said Shoshi Stern-Robbins, a sixth grader at King Open School in East Cambridge. She said that she tries her best to be environmentally-friendly and pushed her school to stop using...