Word: gathering
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...pottery studio (in the basement of the tower) offers weekly courses, where Harvard-affiliated women in their late 20s, forward-thinking male undergraduates looking to make that perfect Valentine’s Day gift-—and anyone else who’s interested-—gather to learn braid- and pot-making from Pamela Gorgone. Enrolled students are given keys to the studio for outside of class hours, and out-of-house students can also take classes, for a small additional...
...absent or ineffectual: when Wynhausen and her co-workers are paid the wrong rates, or expected to work overtime without pay, there's no white knight to help them. Her new work life, she says, calls to mind Australian wharves in the 19th century, when desperate workers used to gather each morning to jockey for a day's work. The difference now is that contenders are kept at arm's length: "They just left you waiting at the other end of the phone...
...rats, for example, we know that the male retina has more cells designed to detect motion. In females, the retina has more cells built to gather information on color and texture. If the same is true in humans, as Sax suspects, that may explain why, in an experiment in England four years ago, newborn boys were much more likely than girls to stare at a mobile turning above their cribs. It may also help explain why boys prefer to play with moving toys like trucks while girls favor richly textured dolls and tend to draw with a wider range...
Bryce A. Ward, a graduate student and tutorial leader in economics, sees the same potential. Ward recently organized a study comparing friendships in the Quad with those in the River houses and used TheFacebook to gather data...
...some professors milled about on the floor of Lowell Lecture Hall after the meeting, Hyman, Summers’ deputy in the central administration, attempted to gather a cadre of administrators to accompany the president upon his departure from the building...