Word: personal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Membership in SAC does not provide a person with any exclusive benefits. In the year that I've been involved with the IOP, I have not been to any event that an associate could not attend," Robert F. McCarthy '02, SAC internships chair said...
...chair of Sharpton's Buy Black committee, Morris Powell, had sharper words: "We are not going to stand idly by and let a Jewish person come into black Harlem and methodically drive people out of business.... We are going to see that this cracker suffers." He added, "... that cracker got to be insane. We are going to close him down...
...picking new administrators, "we try to monitor that the original diversity of the pool remains constant through the process," she says. "We're obviously always trying to find the most qualified person, but we are always maintaining the diversity of our campus...
...Geriatrics Society, elderly people who encounter positive images and feedback about aging may actually function better than those who encounter negative stereotypes. Experiments conducted at Harvard and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston yielded results that further the theory that physical health is very much affected by a person's state of mind. In part of the study, two groups of elderly people were asked to walk down a long hallway, and their gait and speed were measured. Then, each participant played a short video game, during which positive words (like "astute") were flashed at subconscious speed to half...
After the videogame, each person walked back down the hallway, and the same measurements were taken. Participants exposed to positive words had a noticeable spring in their step, researchers say, and were steadier on their feet, while those who registered the negative words moved at their pre-game pace. "Of course," says TIME medical writer Christine Gorman, "positive self-image alone isn't enough to get you through your old age in good shape," she says. "But these results are logical: If you have a positive sense of self, you are more likely to exercise and to take care...