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...Harvard] needs to start thinking creatively,” Mattison said. “Something has to jump-start this, some sort of stimulus...
...Crimson adjusted to the press and gained an advantage by connecting on the open looks that it was able to create over a tight Bears defense. With under 13 minutes to go in the half, Harvard co-captain Emily Tay hit three mid-range jumpers in a row to jump-start the offense, giving the Crimson a 15-8 lead. The tempo of the game picked up at this point, as Brown forced turnovers and Harvard took control on offense. The Crimson had to earn each offensive trip over the half-court line, carefully swinging the ball laterally between guards...
...know what the end looks like,” Wolf said. In December, Patrick established 10 task forces to prepare Massachusetts for the receipt of stimulus funding from the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Signed into law in February, the bill is designed to jump-start the economy and create or save jobs. “The stimulus package will help enormously,” said Patrick in a testimony to the State’s Ways and Means Committee last week, “But it will not close our budget gap.” In order...
...Boston and Cambridge and local taxpayers. Because Harvard is one of the largest employers in Massachusetts, any substantial layoffs at Harvard will dramatically affect neighboring communities—those that don’t have the most expensive money managers and billions of dollars in an endowment to jump-start their financial recovery. Harvard teaches its students to be responsible citizens, but there is nothing responsible about the richest university in the world conducting massive layoffs that will only add to the already hurting economy...
Doodling, in contrast, requires very few executive resources but just enough cognitive effort to keep you from daydreaming, which - if unchecked - will jump-start activity in cortical networks that will keep you from remembering what's going on. Doodling forces your brain to expend just enough energy to stop it from daydreaming but not so much that you don't pay attention...