Word: performancy
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...city’s culture. Organizers say the service trips are meant to be as much an education as a labor donation. When the students weren’t gutting homes or working with elementary school children, they were listening to the stories of survivors or watching local artists perform. They wanted to understand the city. Coming to clubs like Fat Catz is a part of that process...
...artist Ben Folds, who sings that he “take[s] the checks and face[s] the facts,” will soon be taking a check from University President Lawrence H. Summers. Folds will perform in Tercentenary Theater as part of Yardfest, an April 30 event that will be funded by the president’s office, College officials announced yesterday...
...Iraq, acting as a "postbox" for AWB contracts under the U.N. aid program and keeping their ministers up to speed, are just like the rest of us - they forget where information comes from and the names of people they deal with on official business. dfat loses important letters, officials perform "back-of-the-envelope calculations" about commercial transactions worth millions of dollars, and junior officers (with inadequate security clearance) end up conducting seat-of-the-pants investigations about highly sensitive matters for their ministers. Like most people touched by the scandal that saw almost $A300 million in kickbacks diverted from...
...these reasons, it is unsurprising to find statistical evidence that men and women reason differently. While men excel at spatial tasks and mathematical reasoning, women tend to perform better on tests of perceptual speed and mathematical calculations. This is not to say one gender is smarter than another—or that one can accurately predict the behavior or ability of individuals—but rather that sex differences correlate with differences in the means of the respective populations...
...with a hormone the primary goal of which is to drive us to fight, have sex, and watch the NFL, while girls have an unaltered brain enabling them to sit still, make note cards, and think ahead. There are plenty of men here, however, who manage to perform well despite their “unique” brain composition (the article uses the word “primate” three times while describing modern males). Clearly there is something to the male brain that allows us still to perform well at even the most demanding academic institutions despite...