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...Harvard can plan its exam schedule ten years in advance and has the logistical prowess to coordinate times and places for hundreds of classes, it seems obvious that they would increase server capacity on these two key sites during peak periods like the post-intersession/shopping period rush. Instead, they have caused thousands of students to bang their heads against their computer screens. Hopefully next semester the University will iron out this glitch and make this stressful time a little bit easier for everybody...
What enables some people to break new ground, despite early detours and defeats? Experts don't know for sure, but they do have some clues. Rock musicians, athletes, pure mathematicians and theoretical physicists tend to bloom early, while novelists, historians, philosophers and naturalists typically peak later because they must master more information, says Dean Keith Simonton, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Davis, who has studied aging and creativity for 25 years. Blooming can also be tied to "career age." Says Simonton: "If a field is well defined and doesn't require a lot of knowledge...
They play a rougher style of hockey, and the danger for injury is always high, especially because the Crimson may not be in peak game shape. UNB also has a high propensity to drop the gloves for a fight, an act that would carry a one-game suspension for any Harvard pugilist, exhibition match...
Some sites, of course, were better prepared than others. By bringing on enough servers to handle peak-load traffic, the best avoided "site busy" messages and snail-like downloads. They also kept puzzled shoppers from fleeing by providing an 800 number or offering real-time Instant Messaging chats with customer reps. And they avoided apoplectic rages by "integrating" their inventory systems so that what appears to be in stock on the website corresponds with what's actually on the shelves...
...might think stress would be a trigger--the former Senator has been putting in 10-hr. days on the campaign trail--but most doctors aren't convinced it's a factor. Peak physical condition, however, doesn't necessarily provide any protection either. Last September Indiana Pacer's coach Larry Bird revealed that he too suffers from atrial fibrillation and developed it while playing for the Boston Celtics...