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...might act more kindly to one another," he says, "and they might be more likely to engage in pro-social behavior such as volunteer tasks, aimed at benefitting the community represented by the team." When Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl playfully changed his name to "Steelerstahl" the week the Steelers met the Baltimore Ravens in the playoffs, he may have had more on his mind than just the Super Bowl. (Read TIME's 1975 cover story on the Pittsburgh Steelers...
...struggle in the absence of junior co-captain Louis Caputo (184 lbs.) and sophomore Corey Jantzen (141), but head coach Jay Weiss has no interest in self-pity.“I don’t care who’s in or out, the occasion has to be met,” Weiss said. “I’m not one to look at the score, I’m more concerned with the effort, but we didn’t compete hard.”Junior co-captain J.P. O’Connor echoed his coach?...
...that milestone. On Monday, the Board of Trustees voted unanimously to close the museum and use its collection—worth an estimated $350 million—in order to generate funds to cover the University’s looming multimillion-dollar budget deficit. While the plan has been met with considerable opposition from several long-time donors to the Rose and from student protests, the University is moving forward undeterred. Brandeis’s president recently said that some of the art may be saved from liquidation, but that there was no doubt that the facility would be dismantled...
...maintain that most accidents have nothing in common, making it difficult for the FAA to impose tough safety rules. "Each accident has a different set of facts that leads up to it," says Peggy Gilligan, the FAA's top safety official. "The data supports that if standards are being met, these operations can fly safely." (Read a first-person story on riding in an EMS helicopter...
Consider the events of the past two weeks: President Barack Obama, fresh from sky-high approval ratings and an Inauguration that filled the National Mall, met with Republicans in the White House and on Capitol Hill. Disowning any "pride of authorship," he asked both publicly and privately for the two major political parties to work together in Congress on a crucial bill to stimulate the tanking economy. And what happened? While the bill passed by a comfortable margin in the House, it earned not a single vote from a Republican. What's more, 11 Democrats opposed it as well...