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Griskevicius and his colleagues conducted a separate study, this one involving 93 students. This time, they presented the volunteers with choices involving different products, including a North Face backpack with water-resistant coating and many storage compartments vs. a simple, eco-friendly North Face backpack with fewer features but which was constructed from organic fibers. This time, the students were asked to imagine they were buying the equally priced products either at a store or online, in private. The results: those imagining themselves buying the backpacks in public were more likely to go for the enviro backpacks, even though they...
...Merrill Lynch were still solvent.But between freshmen move-in and the Office of Career Services Career Forum at the end of September of their senior year, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America and Lehman Brothers collapsed.And as might be expected in a time of economic turmoil, fewer seniors—usually looking for their first full-time jobs—were able to find work this year than in the recent past.In this year’s Crimson survey of over 500 seniors, 59 percent of those seeking employment said that they currently have a job lined...
...fact is, humans are increasingly capable of remolding themselves in the image of whatever they choose, with fewer and fewer unpleasant side effects. We can either embrace this development or—as the current inclination seems to be—do everything in our power to avoid it. Our gut pulls us towards the second option, but I think our heads should pick the first...
...Selsby says that the cuts would be achieved through a combination of hiring fewer students next year and not renewing all contracts for current...
...people aged 60 and over will double between 2000 and 2050, from 10 percent to 21 percent, and the proportion of children will drop from 30 percent to 21 percent. This change also has numerous implications, including for the “dependency ratio,” meaning that fewer young people are available to provide for the medical and economic needs of the elderly. Much less heralded, however, is the fact that war is a young person’s activity, and it is entirely likely that, as populations age, they may become less aggressive...