Word: habitability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Years ago, in an Oxford tutorial, I taught a young woman who affected an unusual habit. When asked a question that required deep thought, she would screw her eyes tight shut, jerk her head down to her chest and then freeze for up to half a minute before looking up, opening her eyes and answering the question with fluency and intelligence. I was amused by this and did an imitation of it to divert my colleagues after dinner. Among them was a distinguished Oxford philosopher. As soon as he saw my imitation, he immediately said, "That's Wittgenstein...
...taking up cigarettes at ever younger ages. The National Parents' Resource Institute for Drug Education, based in Atlanta, reported that 4% of fourth-graders, 7% of fifth-graders and nearly 15% of sixth-graders had already smoked. Add to this the more than 3 million teenagers with the habit, and you have a major health problem...
...have a great coffee date or a leisurely lunch right after Harvard Model PLO, such events have become "breaks," exceptions instead of the rule. Deferring life, a method once used as an emergency plan for desperate situations, has become the normal approach to responsibilities. Slowly, out of habit, you become one of those people who always has a "meeting," who always "has to go soon," who never seems to have time...
Call it an instinct. I assumed that we, the multi-talented students at Harvard, would excel equally on the other side of the desk. After all, above all else, the classroom is our niche and homework our most cultivated habit...
...many all-nighters, catching z s at irregular hours or going to bed in noisy environments can induce a state of chronic insomnia, debilitating both physical performance and mental cognition. >=For people in good health, the occasional event is nothing to worry about. But if you create a bad habit, you re going to end up fatigued, your mood is going to change and your performance will be impaired,=It knocks you out, but you wake up a few hours later. You re not going to sleep; you re losing consciousness. You don t sleep long enough,<= he cautions...