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...community. One would hopefully feel less apprehensive about leaving personal items on desks in the library. Enacting an honor system could also solve the hassle and degradation of opening up one's backpack upon leaving a library. Perhaps Harvard could even consider unproctored examinations which would aid those who perform better in a comfortable setting without hearing everyone else furiously writing and some stranger calling out the time every five minutes...
...collapse while exercising at your health club, chances are the facility won't be equipped to help. According to preliminary data, half the clubs studied have neither an emergency medical plan in place, personnel trained in CPR nor a working defibrillator. Among those that do, 90% fail to perform regular emergency drills. And one-third of clubs don't bother to screen prospective clients for medical conditions that could make unsupervised workouts risky...
Boies is used to cramming. He has struggled with dyslexia since childhood, and memorizes every detail to avoid having to read anything twice. A few days before Thanksgiving 1986, he was recruited to perform one of his most dramatic saves: appealing a jury verdict that assessed Texaco $10.6 billion for busting up the acquisition of Getty by Pennzoil. At the time, he had been tending to his dying mother in Fullerton, Calif. By Dec. 3, he had mastered 30,000 pages of the original trial transcript, and for the duration of the appeal he split his time between federal court...
...circus or not. The traditionalist in me says keep 'em in - I can't imagine a circus without animals. The animal lover in me, while thrilled just to catch a glimpse of them, often veers between discomfort and amazement at the unusual acts they are made to perform...
That said, there should always be a place in the circus for horses. The very first circus acts were horse acts, and the circus ring itself was established and perfected in order to allow a rider to stand and perform tricks on a moving horse. When it comes to equestrian acts, Kaleidoscape does not disappoint. Sylvia Zerbini's glowing white Liberty horses enter the ring as magically as if they were a herd of unicorns, and gracefully circle the ring responding to her every word and motion...