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Dining Hall: The dining hall staff is wonderfully amicable. The food stations are intuitively arranged, the drink machines are outside the kitchen for easy access, and there is always a bounty of cereal. The dim lighting may keep our dining hall from sparkling, but it gets the job done and you’ll often finding yourself spending many comfortable hours lounging. The hall is sometimes packed during dinner, in large part because of the dining restrictions of Adams and Quincy, but you usually won’t have a problem finding seating for you and your posse...
...Holy Cross Crusaders (0-4) took an early 4-1 lead on the No. 11 Harvard men’s lacrosse team (2-1) this past Saturday, it seemed as though the usual spark between Crimson players was less than a glimmer and hopes for a victory were dim. But an late offensive charge, coupled with a refocused defense that allowed only three goals in the final three quarters, pushed Harvard to a gritty 9-7 victory over the Crusaders...
...five-minute period, what they found was striking. Consistently, the people in the dimmer room reported finding more matches - an average of 11.47 - than those in the bright room, who averaged just 7.78. When their work was checked, it turned out that cheating was rife in the dim room, with the participants there claiming an average of 4.21 more correct answers than they actually got, compared with 0.83 for the other room. Even though none of the subjects put their name on their paper and all were thus anonymous, the darkness still seemed to confer what the researchers called...
...clear that he'd engage with White House officials about a possible energy bill only if Lieberman was part of the conversation. Lieberman built a bridge to Republicans by backing expanded funding for nuclear energy. And though the prospects for a cap-and-trade bill this year are dim, representatives from the energy industry and environmentalists remain at the table for what Lieberman aides say are near daily talks hosted by the Senator or his staffers. If any energy or climate legislation is passed, says a White House aide, it will be thanks to Lieberman's "prominent" role...
...everyone within the whale-studying community takes such a dim view of SeaWorld and other such places. Bernd Wursig, a professor of marine biology at Texas A&M University, acknowledges that the sheer size of whales makes them hard to accommodate well, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. "I don't buy the idea that confinement is what was responsible for Tilikum," he says. "I prefer to see animals in nature, but when they were born in captivity or have been in captivity so long, that socialization is the only one they know...