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...KICK OUT OF DANGEROUS sports like skydiving and whitewater rafting? Do you jump eagerly from job to job or even get a thrill from rearranging the furniture? If so, you are probably what psychologists call a "novelty seeker." The exact origins of personality types have eluded scientists for years. But it now appears that a craving for exciting new experiences can be credited, in part at least, to a single gene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHAVIOR: WHAT MAKES THEM DO IT | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

President Clinton plans to visit U.S. forces in Bosnia before his State of the Union address on Jan. 23. Although the White House refused to divulge exact travel plans, Clinton is expected to visit Tuzla, headquarters of U.S. operations, late this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: DECEMBER 31-JANUARY 6 | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

...would think that the Harvard Democrats would take advantage of the confusion on the right and work to attract disaffected moderates from the Republican ranks. However, College Democrats have been doing the exact opposite. Harvard's proud Democratic tradition includes the intellectual foundations of the New Deal and New Frontier, giving America luminaries and presidents from Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. '38. Today, however, Harvard Democrats are intellectually moribund. As U.S. News and World Report wrote in November, "At Harvard--long the cradle of liberal ideas and leaders--young Republicans outnumber Democrats...

Author: By Andrel Cerny, | Title: Harvard Pols Need Vision | 1/12/1996 | See Source »

However, many members of the public in California are lawyers--160,000, to be exact--and the trial lawyers' lobby is leading the fight against the initiatives. In the next few months, pro- and anti-initiative forces are expected to spend $20 million waging ad wars over the TV airwaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FED UP WITH LAWYERS | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...would create a sense of competitiveness in a class which is the exact opposite of what we are trying for," Feldman says. "We trying for cooperative learning...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: College Considers Grade Inflation | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

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