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...predict how long the average person with characteristics similar to yours will live - they can't address you directly. For a life insurance company - which makes or loses money based on large numbers of policy holders living or dying later or earlier than expected - these averages matter. "I need to know that on average, you're going to die at 82," Graham says. "That average doesn't mean anything to you. I don't know that I would make any life-changing decisions based on that...
They want to turn the UC’s advocacy around. The Council has proven completely impotent when it comes to issues that matter to students, from the student group tax to the Harvard-Yale tailgate. Position paper after position paper isn’t enough, and repeated polite requests are ineffectual. The New UC will more aggressively utilize the campus newsmedia, rallies, petitions, op-eds, town hall meetings, surveys, and popular referenda to get students’ voices heard. We’ve wasted enough paper on reports with no results—the UC needs active advocacy...
Ryan’s success is by no means haphazard; he has an exceptional ability to inspire those working with him to collaborate and give their all to a project. Ryan’s mantra seems quite simple to us: people matter. Ryan is the kind of person who makes certain that everyone he works with knows how valuable and appreciated their contributions are. Whether you find him in a dining hall late at night (on his second or third Brain Break run) or on his way to a breakfast meeting long before classes begin, he always stops...
...matter of days, the chosen few Wii owners (the system is still nigh impossible to find at a fair price) started to discuss the physical risks inherent in such a revolutionary style of play. Players of the complimentary launch title “Wii Sports,” for example, have noticed that a few hours of macho smashes can result in a case of tennis elbow as acute as that experienced by any real court pro. With third-party game developers still warming up, it’s clear that this is just the beginning...
Already, rogue controllers—wireless and attached to gamers’ hands with only a relatively flimsy cord—have escaped from over-excited players’ grips, smashing televisions and beer glasses; it’s only a matter of time before someone pokes a friend’s eye out with a renegade Wiimote. On the popular gaming message board 1up.com, poster Shadowfamicom warns ominously that “the Wii will kill...