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...terms of years, spent only 48% of their time on jumps, and they rested more often. As Deakin and her colleagues write in the Cambridge Handbook, "All skaters spent considerably more time practicing jumps that already existed in their repertoire and less time on jumps they were attempting to learn." In other words, we like to practice what we know, stretching out in the warm bath of familiarity rather than stretching our skills. Those who overcome that tendency are the real high performers...
When William J. Santoro was turned away from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hearing at Harvard Law School on Monday, he was surprised to learn that a number of seats in the room had been filled by people paid by the Comcast Corporation...
...encounter their own set of challenges. But they have the singular opportunity to introduce a culture and a point of view that no other Harvard student can provide. Luckily, the Harvard student body is receptive.“People here actually care about your background and always want to learn more,” Dlamini says. “You’re not easily going to find that interest outside of the school.”—Aditi Balakrishna contributed to the reporting of this story...
...programs where it’s hard to do any substantial harm, like cleaning up the Charles River,” says Christopher Winship, a sociology professor. “But the other end of the continuum is, say, working with a second or third grader and helping them learn to read. Perhaps, for them, the more fundamental issue is learning to trust adults and form strong relationships in their lives, and if you blow it on that, in a sense, you may have made things much worse...
...Currens are the story of this election-not just the primary but also the general. "I have real problems with Hillary on abortion and the right to bear arms," Bob said. But he's likely to learn that Obama's positions on those issues aren't much different from Clinton's. And what will he do then? In the recent past, people like the Currenses voted Republican-because of abortion or guns or bloody-shirt patriotism. This year they want a different conversation, about big things-the economy, America's place in the world, their children's future. This...