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...obsessive focus on technical details with a less tangible discipline - sports psychology. Renowned golf psychologist Bob Rotella teaches Harrington how not to think, encouraging him to play "unconscious, out-of-his-mind golf." Such clarity is muddled by technical tinkering on the practice tee, so Rotella places a limit on practice during big tournaments. It's an abstention Harrington struggles to uphold. "I'm getting better but if I'm let loose I'll just practice all day," he says...
...States, gas tends to be two to three times cheaper than in Western Europe, since federal and state gas taxes in the U.S. are inefficiently low. Now that oil prices around the world have fallen, it would be the best time to gradually start raising gasoline taxes, which would limit gas consumption, pollution, and congestion as well as motivate people to move closer to work or to demand more public transportation. Unlike regulations or rations, higher taxes would not take away personal freedoms, but they would bring in revenues that could be used to pay down debt and alleviate...
...metaphors and fleshy images. It is ultimately Lind’s subtle touch that renders this kind of stagnant illness and sparse landscape unique and full, and his grace as a writer that transforms the atrocities of war into poignant and stirring depictions of human nature pushed to its limit.—Staff writer Jenny J. Lee can be reached at jhlee@fas.harvard.edu...
Stock said that faculty had discussed offering two junior seminars in the next term, but ultimately concluded that it would be better to convert them to open-enrollment courses. These classes will be taught on similar course topics, but will not be restricted to the 16-student limit of junior seminars...
...city-state has its defenders. "Dubai-bashing is in fashion right now," says Hassan Jarrar, head of wholesale banking for Standard Chartered Bank in Dubai. "Like most governments, the U.A.E. wants to limit the fears of not just the people inside but also external investors. Are they understating the problem? I don't think so." He insists that "the difference between Dubai and Singapore or Shanghai is, in Dubai, when cranes leave site here, they leave when construction is finished." A trip down Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai's main thruway, named after the U.A.E.'s founder and first President, reveals...