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Just looking at a garden can be good for you. In a study published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, Terry Hartig and colleagues at the University of California at Irvine split 112 stressed-out young adults into two groups. One group spent time in a room with an arboreal view, followed by a walk in a nature preserve. The second group sat in a windowless room and then strolled through an urban setting. The group exposed to greenery had decreased blood pressure and elevated mood, some in just a few minutes. Studies by Texas A&M University's Roger...
Particularly with blacks. "To wholesale integrate this town because 'by God we're going to integrate' is not fair," says businessman David Hartig Jr., who headed the petition drive against the plan. "This is simply a quota plan." Hartig is at pains to distance himself from the resident bigots, but says, "People who don't like a closed community like Dubuque can go elsewhere." He complains that the only reason the plan has survived is because business leaders are afraid to oppose it. "It's like McCarthyism," he says. "If you don't support affirmative-action plans, then...
...Francesca Don Hartig scores six goals despite almost-constant .two-on-one coverage as the women's lacrosse team beats James Madison, 11-4, in the NCAA quarterfinals. The laxwomen fall to Maryland, 5-3, in the semifinals...
...brutally plain that if they wanted to get ahead in the company they had better go along with the clandestine price fixing; others figured that, even in the face of proclaimed company antitrust regulations, they were obliged to break them just to hold their jobs. Said Paul Hartig, former general manager of G.E.'s insulator department: "It was a way of life. It was part of the job." G.E.'s George R. Fink, former sales manager of the medium-voltage department, who was ordered by his superior to meet with the competitors, went over his boss...
...curriculum "a respectable, oldfashioned, academic program," said he would prefer it to the public schools' for his own children. History Professor David Noble called Tommy's knowledge of history "unique, especially in view of the lack of history teaching in public schools." Electrical Engineering Professor Henry Hartig praised "the discipline and memorizing" that Tommy's instruction involves compared with the public schools' tendency "to make things fun at whatever expense...