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...year ago, Harvard’s four-building, 589,000-square-foot science complex existed only on paper. By the end of the summer, officials say they plan to begin working on the foundation of the glass complex that will house the Harvard Stem Cell Institute...
This year was to be my opportunity to do everything I wished I had done at Harvard that had somehow eluded me during my first three years. From seeing the glass flowers collection to attending a hockey game to enjoying a Gilbert and Sullivan performance to learning to scull along the Charles, I had a lot to do in very little time...
...answer dismays almost all visitors - whose view of Americans, of course, also come from movies. In a room packed with such priceless gifts as the solid-gold replica of mosque doors from Saudi Arabia and a large gold gong from Malaysia, is a small glass cabinet containing Washington's gifts: four bowls - two silver, two porcelain - bearing the White House insignia, given at various times by Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Energy Secretary Samuel Bordman. Another display shows a box of 12 autographed golf balls given to Nazarbayev by Clinton...
Although the sounds of his bass clarinet are certainly moving right now, it’s hard to imagine a more torturous idea than waking up with the birds to sit in an empty studio, staring into the dark common area through the glass while announcing track names to the perhaps four dedicated listeners and five elderly gentleman who have decided to tune in. These estimations could even be high—it is entirely possible that I am speaking to no one right...
...well. In particular, years of research have demonstrated over and over that our intuitions about the relative effectiveness of different approaches are often wrong. Over the years we’ve learned that we are often wrong about what drives our dishonest behavior, about what makes us enjoy a glass of beer, about what makes us willing to pay different amounts for different products, etc. In essence, our intuitions about what drives our behavior are often misguided...