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Although the leap from teaching undergraduates to MBAs may seem incongruous for a psychologist, the faculty of the University of Chicago Business School is heavily populated with people from the basic disciplines, Epley said...
...that defines the meaning of leap year, the jumpers on the men’s efforts earned 30 of Harvard’s total points...
...important provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), it almost looked as if the days of unlimited soft money donations were over. Passed in March 2002, the law severely limited what kind of money politicians and activist groups could use to finance political campaigns. It was a monumental leap toward a fair and transparent political process...
...Southern China has long been recognized as the incubator of flu viruses. Traditional Chinese farming practices?especially the close proximity of birds, pigs and humans?promote the mixing of viruses, which mutate and leap between species. New strains are constantly evolving as viral genes are swapped between host bird species. 'The 1997 strain was a reassortment from three viruses from goose and, we think, the quail,' says Kennedy Shortridge, a University of Hong Kong microbiologist who has studied influenza since 1975 ... The so-called Asian flu, first identified in China in 1957, and the Hong Kong flu of 1968 together...
...This leap instilled in me a new confidence,” Andrew-Jaja said, “one that will surely quiet my inner doubts that I can be the Heptagonal Champion in the high jump, that I can soon regain my place among the elite in the nation...