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...April 3, Vietnamese immigrant Jiverly Wong, 41, walked into an immigration-services center in Binghamton, N.Y., and opened fire, killing 13 people in the worst mass shooting in the U.S. since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. The following day, three Pittsburgh, Penn., police officers responding to a domestic disturbance were killed by 23-year-old Richard Poplawski. In both cases, the suspects were wearing body armor. Wong ultimately took his own life; police eventually took Poplawski into custody after a four-hour standoff, charging him with three counts of criminal homicide and nine counts of attempted homicide as well...
...study, Lori Francis at Penn State University analyzed data collected on 1,000 children who participated in two different self-regulation tasks, one at age 3 and the other at age 5, and were followed until age 12. In the first task, designed to measure self-control, the 3-year-olds were left alone in a room with a bunch of toys - one of which was a known favorite - for 150 seconds. They were instructed to play with the other toys but not to touch the favored one. Children who were able to wait 75 seconds or longer before touching...
...meets may have been small, but the times posted by the Harvard track and field team this weekend made a big statement. The squad traveled to Princeton, N.J. Friday night for the Sam Howell Invitational before participating in the Penn Invitational in Philadeliphia on Saturday. The Crimson celebrated numerous accomplishments in both competitions, including two NCAA regional qualifiers, four ECAC qualifying marks, and one invitation to IC4As. Harvard athletes also notched six personal outdoor bests in meets that provided good preparation for the heart of the spring season...
...There were some strong performances and I was really glad with the [effort],” Saretsky said. “The team really benefitted from being down at Penn when it wasn’t the Penn Relays, because it helped us to prepare for Heps...
Even with tri-captain Shannon Flynn on top of her game, tallying a career-high four points on three goals and an assist, the Harvard women’s lacrosse team came up short against Ivy leader Penn. The Crimson suffered an 18-9 loss to the No. 3 Quakers (10-0, 4-0 Ivy) on Saturday at Harvard Stadium. The loss is Harvard’s second league defeat, while Penn remains undefeated in both in conference play and overall. “It was encouraging that Penn is the No. 3 team in the country and we were...