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...test addition skills, an extra cloud of blue dots flashed on the monitor and were covered up before the red dots were introduced, Spelke wrote...
...chilly winter at home. As the increasingly high winds of Hurricane Rita tore through the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday, petroleum prices soared in expectation that America's already battered oil sector could take another direct hit. The rise was tempered by an offer by OPEC to release an extra 2 million barrels a day on world markets, which helped prices to ease slightly on the New York Mercantile Exchange-where the cost of a barrel of light crude had risen by more than $4 Monday, the biggest one-day increase in history...
...Still, the long-term costs for consumers are almost certain to increase. The problem is a lack of U.S. refining capacity, which means that even if extra petroleum is available, there may be no way to transform it into gasoline and other products like home heating fuel. The result: utilities in many parts of the U.S. are warning customers that winter heating costs could be up to 70% higher than last year's levels. In the event Rita hits Texas, the largest oil refiner in the U.S., disruption could be serious. That state alone has 26 refineries, largely along...
Closer to home, textbooks’ soft-cover cousins aren’t getting any cheaper either. Coursepacks that Harvard Printing and Publication Services (HPPS) used to handle are now being farmed out to XanEdu, a for-profit printer, and sold at the Harvard Coop. The extra distribution costs plus the Coop’s markup can only mean higher prices for students (then again, HPPS’s abrupt departure from the coursepack printing business means their low prices must have been to some extent financially unsustainable...
...penalties proved particularly costly for the Crimson. On the extra point attempt following Liam O’Hagan’s second quarter touchdown run giving Harvard a 20-14 lead, sophomore defensive end Brad Bagdis was flagged for a personal foul. Sophomore kicker Matt Schindel was forced to re-kick the extra point after the 15-yard penalty and missed it, ended his streak of 20 straight made extra points...