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...city may have more say in the makeup of Harvard Square if councillors manage to orchestrate Cambridge’s purchase of a coveted piece of property from the MBTA. Last night, councillors discussed the possibility of buying the conductors’ building and surrounding land behind the Harvard Square Hotel on Mount Auburn Street and converting it into a Cambridge museum or a site for local small businesses. City Manager Robert W. Healy reported at last night’s council meeting that he would have to look further into the feasibility of a deal before making any recommendations...
...What's changing, of course, is India's demographic makeup as the nation's booming economy mints a critical mass of newly affluent consumers. Last year, the average Indian salary surged 14% (18% for IT professionals), the highest wage growth in Asia, according to a study by Hewitt Associates, a global human-resources company. There are now about 1.6 million Indian households that spend an average of $9,000 a year on luxury goods, according to The Knowledge Company, a management-consulting firm in New Delhi. "With multi-income families and increasing international exposure through travel and the Internet...
...result. A study in 2000 determined that children tend to play with sex-appropriate toys (i.e., boys with trucks; girls with dolls) regardless of societal or parental interference. The study’s conclusion? Sexual differences result not just from social pressure, but also from innate physical and hormonal makeup. The truth is somewhere between nature and nurture: men and women have been designed by some invisible, selective hand to tend to think and act differently, and these tendencies are hammered home by an often discriminatory society...
...just wonder what exactly the purpose is in having literature majors learn (or pretend to learn, or re-learn) how to do stoichiometry or memorize the exact chemical makeup of the stratosphere. Apart from an increased ability to memorize (or fake it), what do history students gain from memorizing dozens of equations only to forget everything a day later, or, as a friend put it, “copying problem sets and barely passing the final...
...girls headed for different high schools after eighth grade, but Priddy said that Viswanathan “got WAY more into dressing nicely and makeup and stuff in high school...