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...NightSprint—the weekend was a resounding success and was also an early gauge of the fitness of the team’s competitors.“The Head of Oklahoma was incredible—to take the senior boat and do well,” co-captain Liz Demers said. “It gave us a lot of momentum and showed us our strengths. We’re aggressive, but we also saw where we need to improve. We’ve been putting in some really good work, aiming to do better, and catching Stanford will...
Three dynamic captains. Two successful programs. One storied name.For the 2008-’09 Radcliffe senior captains—heavyweights Liz Demers and Anna Kendrick, along with lightweight Rebekah Kharrazi—it’s as easy as one, two, three.And this weekend, the big three will be leading their respective crews at the Head of the Charles, looking to start off their tenures with success.“It will be an indication for us to see how we’re doing, set the stage for the next year,” Kharrazi said...
...weeks from now, California voters will vote on Proposition 8, an anti-gay marriage ballot initiative, and proponents of that measure decry the field trip as overtly political. "This is promoting same-sex marriage and indoctrinating young kids," says Frank Schubert, co-manager of the Yes on 8 Campaign. Liz Jaroflow, principal of Creative Arts Charter School, told the San Francisco Chronicle that the nuptuals were a "teachable moment" and pointed out that students who did not have parental permission to attend the event had the option of joining another classroom instead. "It's certainly an issue I would...
...head coach of the Harvard women’s heavyweight crew team, Liz O’Leary, said that “everybody is courteous and respectful and follows the traffic patterns,” and everything runs smoothly “as long as there’s good communication among people who are using the river...
When Banaji, along with cognitive neuroscientist Liz Phelps of New York University, conducted brain scans of subjects using functional magnetic resonance imaging, they uncovered the reasons for the results. White subjects respond with greater activation of the amygdala--a region that processes alarm--when shown images of black faces than when shown images of white faces. "One of the amygdala's critical functions is fear-conditioning," says Phelps. "You attend to things that are scary because that's essential for survival." Later studies have shown similar results when black subjects look at white faces...