Word: icing
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...roommate-bonding night.” Despite spending almost an hour in line for the bumper cars, Oliver A. Horovitz ’08 said, “I wish we had this when I was a freshman because this is about 800 times cooler than the ice cream social.” The student-run College Events Board (CEB), funded by $200,000 from University Hall, planned the carnival—the first in a series of activities, including the Harvard-Yale Pep Rally in the fall and Yardfest in the spring, slated for this year. The CEB this...
...reach? FMRI studies are expensive. Brammer says a medium-size study could cost from $94,000 to $188,000. Less expensive options can answer some marketing questions, though. For Unilever, Walla recently used a startle-reflex method that measures muscle control of eye blinks to determine that eating ice cream makes people happier than eating yogurt or chocolate. Another drawback of scanners: lying in one is hardly a natural environment for watching TV or spotting brands. But new versions that let subjects sit up under contraptions that resemble salon hair dryers should increase the comfort factor...
...Security but also suggested a heretical payroll-tax increase to finance them. He infuriated the right last year by joining the bipartisan, largely moderate "Gang of 14" that blocked a change in Senate rules that would have ended Democratic filibusters of Bush's judicial nominees. Graham more recently helped ice the appeals-court nomination of Defense Department counsel William Haynes, an architect of the Administration's detainee policy...
...head of ESPP is Pfoho Housmaster Jim McCarthy, study break enforcer and science advisor to Al Gore’s own Inconvenient Truth. Other professors include Paul Hoffman and Daniel Schrag, the two leading proponents of the “Snowball Earth” hypothesis, which proposes that an ice age that took place in the Neoproterozoic was so severe that the Earth’s oceans froze over completely. According to some, it could happen again. And ESPPers are the only ones who will be equipped to stop it! And if it isn’t enough that ESPP...
...patterns and prime numbers, factorials and probability. (“What’s the likelihood that two people in a class of 25 have the same birthday?” the professor coos while drawing a pretty picture on the board. “Order the same ice cream? Cheat off the same freshman?”) And let us not forget the most nostalgic bit: homework (a.k.a. busywork) assigned after each class. Quantitative Reasoning 48, “Bits,” promises to explain the inner workings of every little electronic gizmo in your house from telephones...