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...next day (once the L-DOPA had cleared from the body), all the participants were brought back and presented with 40 pairs of vacation spots, each pair containing locations to which they had given equal ratings in the first part of the experiment. Participants were asked to pick which of each pair of places they would prefer to visit. It turned out that those who had imagined themselves vacationing the previous day under the influence of dopamine were significantly more likely to predict they'd be happier in those same spots. That same preference didn't occur in the placebo...
Overtime began with three defensive errors from Harvard and a pair of threes from New Hampshire. The momentum that the Crimson had gained throughout the second half withered into a disappointing overtime performance...
...game with just over three minutes to play courtesy of a three-pointer from sophomore point guard Brogan Berry. With three seconds left in the second half and the Crimson ahead by one point, the Wildcats sent the game into overtime after making the second shot of a pair of free throws...
...charity stripe wasn’t so kind to the Harvard men’s basketball team last night at West Point. Taking advantage of its trips to the line, Army rode foul shots by a pair of guards—sophomore Julian Simmons and senior Josh Miller—to a 56-53 defeat of the Crimson...
...argue. We failed capitalism by getting in its way. As if we're the ones who created the sleazy subprime mortgages and exotic derivatives (graded phony AAA by real capitalists) that blew up the system. It's the standard Forbes canon: government and taxes bad; rich people good. The pair dutifully round up free-market evangelists from Smith to Hayek to Friedman to support their apologia but fail to add any real insight. Capitalism works, all right, but not like this...