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...University of Montreal conducted a longitudinal study that began in 1999, when she assembled a sample group of 163 kindergartners with a median age of 5.5 years. The kids' teachers filled out a questionnaire in which they rated each child's degree of inattentiveness, distractibility and hyperactivity on a scale of 1 to 9. Pagani tallied the scores and then tucked the findings away. (See 10 things to do in Las Vegas...
...What struck Pagani most was how predictable the identities of the gamblers were. When she referred back to the ratings from kindergarten, she found that every one-unit increase on the impulsivity scale correlated with a 25% jump in the likelihood a child would be gambling by sixth grade. "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual already refers to gambling specifically as an impulse-control disorder," she says, citing the official text that outlines diagnostic criteria for mental disorders. "And then there were our findings showing that...
...spite of a deepening economic recession, College administrators maintain that the financial crisis will not derail their large-scale House renewal project—the most extensive renovation of The College’s nine river and three Quad Houses, with a $1 billion price tag. But last Tuesday, Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced that construction of two new residential colleges on that campus, in addition to other construction projects, will be delayed, citing a projected 25 percent drop in Yale’s endowment by June. University President Drew G. Faust also forecasted a similarly significant endowment...
...Dunster residents brave enough to undertake another project of such monumental scale: we assure you that your igloo, like its predecessor, will die a natural death (namely, a lot of sunlight and warmth). So stay away, hockey players...
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