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...sense of what they are capable of doing,” says Laurie R. Santos ’97, one of Hauser’s graduate students, who worked in the lab as an undergraduate as well. Both Santos and Spaulding say that while working with the monkeys is often rewarding, it can also be frustrating. “They all have personalities,” Spaulding says. “You learn that this monkey is really nervous, and that one doesn’t want to come out of her cage and will stretch herself across the cage...
Students testify that the lab experience, featuring daily coffee hours with Hauser, is a lot of fun, but the best part is still working with the animals. “It’s very humbling to be outsmarted by a one-pound monkey,” Spaulding says. “I think everyone at Harvard could use that once in a while...
...light-RELAX, I read on the traffic light-and a little boy came up to me waving a copy of the Ikea 2001 catalog he was hoping to sell. Behind him, a painted elephant trooped past toward a wedding (STOP FOR HORSES, said the roadside sign), and a monkey dipped its hand into a bag of potato chips. In New Delhi, that mix of old East and new West-the elephant and the Ikea catalog-looked like a winning, and not so Japanese, combination...
Getting a monkey off your back never took so long. But for the Harvard men’s hockey team, it was well worth the wait...
...pretty steep learning curve," admits Steen Strand, 35, the investment banker turned entrepreneur who invented Freebord. Will I ever catch big air on that curve? Probably not. But that's O.K. I may break my neck trying, but at least I won't die of boredom--or Chunky Monkey ice cream...