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...checker’s desk in Adams House, a glass pitcher for cash donations and a sign-up sheet for the University Health Services (UHS) blood drive were silent reminders of Tuesday. Lowell House continued to offer residents free long-distance calls to New York and Washington D.C. from the senior tutor’s office. Many professors cut classes short or prefaced their lecture with a moment of silence...
...stereotypes swing the other way too. The image of the geisha still pervades Western ideas of Japanese women. Among servicemen, the gaggles of pretty Japanese girls are a big reason that Okinawa ranks high on the "dream sheet," the list of desired stations for enlisted men, which usually includes Hawaii and the bases closest to their hometowns. Demetrius Young, 27, a black Marine corporal from Miami, has been stationed in Okinawa just a week and already: "I loooove Okinawa. Why? The ladies, they're all beee-yooo-tiful." There's a difference between viewing the ladies as delectable temptations, though...
...Fred, a government cartographer, works the office graveyard shift, which means he and his wife Debbie, a claims adjuster, hardly see each other. The family rarely eats dinner together, and the parents are constantly exhausted. Says Debbie: "I have my schedule down to the hour on an Excel work sheet...
Whichever approach you choose, you will need to adapt it to your child's age. Preschoolers who have barely given up their cribs are nonetheless able to choose from a couple of paint colors or sheet designs (carefully screened by you, of course). They're also old enough to have well-developed play habits and perhaps even a collection or two, which will determine how you arrange and furnish the room. Best of all, they're still easily persuaded that cleanup...
Until Patricia Goldman-Rakic started delving into it, the most important part of the brain, the frontal lobe, was a veritable blank sheet. A gray, wrinkled chunk of tissue tucked behind the forehead and taking up about a third of the total brain mass, it is to the rest of the central nervous system what a CEO is to a modern corporation. It takes sensory data fed to it by the rest of the organization (smells, sounds, tastes, etc.) and decides what it all means and what should be done about it. It's largely responsible for our thinking, planning...