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Human beings can be a devious lot. At some point, even the most moral of us have skulked or sneaked or filched something we weren't supposed to - even if it were just a cookie from the kitchen. Of all the things that get our sneakiness juices going, there is nothing like a little darkness...
There were a lot of factors behind these two distinct survival profiles - the most significant being time. Most shipwrecks are comparatively slow-motion disasters, but there are varying degrees of slow. The Lusitania slipped below the waves a scant 18 min. after the German torpedo hit it. The Titanic stayed afloat for 2 hr. 40 min. - and human behavior differed accordingly. On the Lusitania, the authors of the new paper wrote, "the short-run flight impulse dominated behavior. On the slowly sinking Titanic, there was time for socially determined behavioral patterns to reemerge...
...nice thing about this is, of course, it gives us the opportunity to showcase the sport right here at Harvard,” coach Peter Brand said. “We’ll have the chance to bring in a lot of spectators and show fencing to the larger community...
...They like to come out and pressure us,” Cohen said. “We’re going to see a lot of things we haven’t seen before. We just cannot get nervous and have to play like we play every other match. We can’t let the pressure get to us and we’re going to have to deal with the adversity if we get down early in the beginning...
...High schoolers who identify as LGBT could definitely use a lot of outreach in knowing that their future college offers a welcoming community to people who identify with all kinds of genders and sexualities,” he said. “The onus is on the school and the school community to demonstrate that they are proactive in creating a safe environment...