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...endowment by 2010 in order to pay for part of the deficit. Their presentation outlined a plan to “decapitalize” part of the Faculty’s endowment—a rare measure that transfers additional endowment money into the budget on top of the normal annual payout.In addition to decapitalization, the committee’s plan emphasized a more concerted and aggressive fundraising effort, which they said would raise an extra $15–$19 million in 2010. Increased financial support from the University, in the realm of $18–$23 million, would also...
...coffee contains scores of substances. Some of them are antioxidants, which could explain part of its protective effect against disease. Some are psychoactive. "Our research," says Martin, "has focused on some of those other elements, such as chlorogenic acids, which keep adenosine in circulation in the brain longer than normal. That might augment coffee's ability to increase concentration without increasing irritability...
...same experience.”This shared experience often eliminated the pressure and fatigue of being an object of curiosity. Joshua Miller says that, among Harvard students, he is “always introduced as that kid from Tulane…sometimes you just want to be a normal student, without any special label.” “You get asked the same questions over and over,” he adds. “It gets really tiring after a while.”Many Tulane students say they found that Harvard’s social life...
...animals that were starved of attention and stimulation, says Pat Levitt, director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. "Everyone heard about the orphans in Romania who were deprived of stimulation as babies, then had learning and emotional problems later," says Levitt. But just because a normal environment is better than a deprived one, that doesn't necessarily mean that a hyperenriched environment is better still. As Levitt puts it: "There is no evidence that says you can drive the baby's system to ever greater heights...
...shooting. “It was my shooting hand, so that’s kind of difficult,” Holsey said. “It’s kind of tight.“Hopefully at the end of [reading period] I’ll be back to normal.”In the end, the effort belonged to the Harvard rookies. When the team struggled, as when the Big Green jumped out to a 21-8 lead by the 13-minute mark, hitting four of its first five three-point attempts, the Crimson’s inexperience...