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...examples of people doing nothing at all. He was even able to re-create the effect in his lab. He found that about 45% of people in his experiment shut down (that is, stopped moving or speaking for 30 sec. or often longer) when asked under pressure to perform unfamiliar but basic tasks. "They quit functioning. They just sat there," Johnson remembers. It seemed horribly maladaptive. How could so many people be hard-wired to do nothing in a crisis...
...days the two will meet to tape more appeals for help for the tsunami's victims. In the fall they will perform at Texas A & M and in all probability later in Little Rock. They are an odd couple, morphed by world events and the astute hand of President George W. Bush into a new pair of celestial buddies after a decade of intense political rivalry. There may be more rivalry to come with Hillary rising like a rocket. But for now they are going about the world's good work (and the interests of their Presidential libraries) showing unity...
...pieces come from a variety of professional choreographers. For some of the more prestigious, traditional pieces, HBC bought the rights to choreography from particular choreographers or companies. But one piece, however, comes from a more local source: the Cambridge-based company, Prometheus Dance, which will use HBC dancers to perform its original choreography...
...perform short-term divination, geologists examine a number of clues. Mild seismic activity in the area, rumblings or the emission of ash and gases are all harbingers of greater things to come. Changes in the snowcaps that cover tall volcanoes may also indicate trouble. In Iceland, for example, the sight of a sagging, snow-covered mountaintop, which indicates that hot magma is pushing upward and melting the ice cap, warns knowledgeable residents to head for safety. More sophisticated techniques include tiltmeters or laser ranging devices to detect deformations in the volcano cone, also caused by magma oozing upward. Seismometers...
Last Thursday night at 9 p.m., an artistic crowd once again gathered in the Quincy lobby area, before descending into the depths of the basement, where all would perform in the Quincy Cage show...