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...tells PEOPLE she did what anyone would have done after feeling the pressure from being called "Duff Puff" by the tabloids a few years back: she lost weight. With infinite maturity, blog site GIRLS TALKIN' SMACK clarifies, "Well, you know what they say, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." SCORE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 16, 2007 | 4/10/2007 | See Source »

...them have seen one Olympic Games, maybe two. College is already out of the question, made illegal after an athlete decides to join the professional ranks.Most importantly, college competition is often seen as an obstacle to development and improvement. Minor technicalities like class time, playing with teammates of inferior skill, and other collegiate distractions deter such athletes from a stint at a university.The NCAA Tournament, by contrast, offers a stage to those amateur athletes whose majority will never reach the heights of the professional ranks. For most, there will be no appearance in the Olympics, big contract, or long athletic...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SOONER OR TAITER: NCAA in Buenos Aires? Ay Caramba! | 4/3/2007 | See Source »

...hardly the first to reveal the disruptive damage wrought by workplace bullies, as shown by the depth of scholarly literature he cites. But something about Sutton's message hits a nerve. Maybe it's the epithet, which he defines helpfully as someone who persistently belittles and abuses those of inferior power or status. (As if we needed it spelled out.) Or maybe it's his argument that jerks exact a cost to the bottom line as they single-handedly corrode an organization's cohesion. An IT company he mentions went so far as to calculate a star salesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defending Jerks at Work | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...that wasn’t all the heckler had to say. He gave us poignant tidbits regarding how we were somehow inferior because of our intelligence, he cheered when junior midfielder Zach Widbin was spitting up blood on the sideline after an illegal hit, and he barely backed down when a quasi-security guard told him to “take it easy” and stop his ridiculousness...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE MALCOM X-FACTOR: Harvard Likes Bubble Baths? | 3/20/2007 | See Source »

...devised. First they trained their monkeys to pick up a morsel of food and either eat it or put it into a container. Then they had the monkeys watch a researcher doing the same things. In both instances, mirror neurons in an area of the monkeys' parietal cortex, or inferior parietal lobule, fired more strongly when the goal of the grabber was to eat rather than to set the food aside. UCLA neuroscientist Marco Iacoboni and his colleagues recorded a similar response in 23 human volunteers when they watched a series of videos, one showing a hand reaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: The Gift Of Mimicry | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

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