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...says Sarah Miller, “but they had a lot of stuff planned for us to do...and getting used to the new situation...took up a lot of time.”The Tulane students ate dinner with their mutual academic advisor, University Hall administrator Inge-Lise Ameer, once a week, and also went on organized shopping trips and cultural excursions into Boston.Others welcomed this semester as a rest from their hectic Tulane schedules.Joshua Miller says he and his fellow Tulane students took advantage of Boston’s colder climate. “We just all went...
...learning. Most experts agree that what matters most is not what toy the baby plays with but the ways in which you interact with your child. "There's no question that the experiences a child has in its first year are crucial for cognitive, emotional and physical development," says Lise Eliot, a neuroscientist at Chicago Medical School and author of What's Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life. "But the good news is none of this costs any money. Babies prefer humans over anything inanimate...
...semester abroad” where I felt completely welcome and at home. There are no words to express how thankful I am, and there is not enough room on this paper to list the names of those to whom I am eternally grateful. The amazing staff in Inge-lise Ameer’s and the College Dean’s office took 25 clueless kids and taught us the ins and outs of shopping period, briefed us on the kind of coat you really need when it snows, and made us feel completely at home in Cambridge. My wonderful teachers...
Economists Lise Vesterlund of the University of Pittsburgh and Muriel Niederle of Stanford University conducted a study in which they assembled 40 men and 40 women, gave them five minutes to add up as many two-digit numbers as they could, and paid them 50 for each correct answer. The subjects were not competing against one another but simply playing against the house. Later, the game was changed to a tournament in which the subjects were divided into teams of two men or two women each. Winning teams got $2 per computation; losers got nothing. Men and women performed equally...
...couplings are at center stage in this still sprightly tale: the long since abandoned marriage of a woman (Uta Hagen) who is fervently modern and a man (Stefan Gierasch) who is scrupulously conformist, and the flirtation between this couple's virginal daughter (Lise Hilboldt) and an amiable young dentist (Victor Garber) who is a seasoned rake and frank fortune hunter. In less imaginative hands, the play would end with the younger man's reforming and the older couple's rediscovering the first fine flush of passion. Shaw indulges no such false hopes. He sketches the destructive powers of jealousy...