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...Because FM needs to re-issue the “Scrabble Challenge” face to face. 2. Interim Dean David Pilbeam. Someone needs to give him a “Kick in the Butt” (3 parts Absolut Raspberri, 3 parts Limoncello, 12 parts tonic water). 3. Random hookup. Avoid awkwardness that lurks in almost every dining hall. 4. Holworthy Hoes: where they go, a party follows. 5. Widener Craiglist Girl. She probably won’t do it again, but it would be funny if she was in Widener a lot, you know? 6. Your Harvard...

Author: By Emily C. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Things We Wish We Had GPS... | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...series of meetings led by the Boston Public Health Commission and Mayor Thomas M. Menino. The goal of the meetings is to bring together public health officials, teenagers, and high school and community leaders to devise strategies to clamp down on the violence. The survey was administered to a random sample of more than 1,200 students from 18 public high schools in Boston last year. “The data system provides an infrastructure to find out where interventions should be targeted and whether or not they work,” Azrael said. The Boston Public Health Commission said...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Violence Plagues Local Schools | 10/23/2007 | See Source »

...research question less the findings of the science than the methods. To achieve any kind of statistical significance, investigators must assemble large samples of families and look for patterns among them. But families are very different things-distinguished by size, income, hometown, education, religion, ethnicity and more. Throw enough random factors like those into the mix, and the results you get may be nothing more than interesting junk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Birth Order | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...would not have had one good memory or experience out of Harvard.” Before Saturday night, the Lampoon was putting out place settings for “somewhere between 15 and 20” guests, but they were also “expecting a bunch of random people to pop up,” Arbes and Davenport say. The identities of the crashers were impossible to discover, given the Lampoon’s typical semi-secrecy...

Author: By Emma R. Coleman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Dysfunctional Family | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

Handcuffs, lipstick, lingerie, a straitjacket, a martini glass, and a naked woman have conspicuously snuck onto the cover of a science book. Something is afoot.Looking at the fluorescent assortment of seemingly random images on the jacket of Harvard psycholinguist Steven Pinker’s “The Stuff of Thought,” one gets a sense of what to expect from this charming and provocative investigation into language.For its author, language is a reflection of our conception of the world—and, consequently, human nature.Fittingly, Pinker uses cultural references, sexy verbs, and toilet allusions to describe...

Author: By Juli Min, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pinker’s Study of Language Has the Right ‘Stuff’ | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

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