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...Washington D.C. with three other friends when, after taking a shot and landing on her feet, she sat down on the ground, and then proceeded to lay prone on the floor. The three friends, including Patrick Jean Baptiste ’09, thought that Ekperi was playing a joke and was pretending to be hurt. The two other friends were not Harvard students...
...twin beds in the same shared room. Peace is made when one sib offers a toy or shares a thought or throws a pillow in a mock provocation that releases the lingering tension in a burst of roughhousing. Somewhere in there is the early training for the e-mail joke that breaks an office silence or the husband who signals that a fight is over by asking his wife what she thinks they should do about that fast-approaching vacation anyway. "Sibling relationships are where you learn all this," says developmental psychologist Susan McHale of Penn State University. "They...
...recall the first day on our own, when we sat down to 25-yuan plates of food, gloating at what a deal we had found, only later to discover that right next door a large bowl of noodles could be found for a fifth of the price. We often joke that it’s like going shopping and finding incredible bargains anywhere and everywhere. It’s been difficult to take my mind off what money must mean to the Chinese, and I still catch myself dividing price stickers by eight to check the price equivalent in dollars...
...construction costs. Congress subsequently expanded the network to include other routes and the new states of Hawaii and Alaska. And even now, ongoing fidgeting with the system - the repaving and widening of established highways and the construction of new metro commuter routes close to growing cities - suggests that old joke about New York City: "It'll be a great place if they ever finish building...
...more of a tool for Chavez to rally support behind his government than anything else. But in a country where many still blame the U.S. for tacitly supporting a failed coup against Chavez in 2002, the powers that be certainly don't act as if an attack is a joke...