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...exergaming system called Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)--interactive games that instruct kids to use their feet to tap buttons on a sensor mat. After a pilot program found the games were beneficial, the state vowed to install consoles in all its public schools by next year. (It didn't hurt the study's credibility that it was funded in part by an insurance company, not by the gamemaker.) Since then, other districts have climbed aboard, helped by video-game makers like Nintendo and Sony, which are designing systems to meet the demand; small companies like Expresso Fitness that donate equipment...
...will Iraq stand four months from now, at the time of the Iowa caucuses--or 14 months from now, in November 2008? As wars are unpredictable, so are the politics of war. The fact that we were a nation at war helped the Republicans in 2002 and 2004. It hurt them badly in 2006. What about 2008? George W. Bush recently compared Iraq to Vietnam. Well ... is this 1968, when the party in power got punished, or 1972, when a dovish challenger got clobbered...
...their part, administrators said last spring that they were hesitant to endorse the enterprise due to concerns that it would hurt the market fortunes of the Harvard Coop...
...garner curious stares when we exhibit secondary symptoms, like twisted faces and balled fists. I would bet I’m not the only person in the College who has tasted blood in his mouth after clenching his teeth so hard during a block that made his entire head hurt. About once a month, a waitress or waiter will take my stutter as evidence of mental retardation, and proceed to treat me accordingly...
...lieu of federal policies encouraging massive investment in renewable energy—even an environmentalist like myself can’t dream that optimistically—the best way for colleges such as Harvard to ensure that America does its part to help rather than drastically hurt the global environment in the coming century is to ensure that every time you walk anywhere on campus, you see and appreciate that renewable energy can and does work reliably and unobtrusively. The solar panels on the Cabot Science Library and the planned wind turbines on William James Hall are a miniscule step...