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...men’s physical behavior followed their psychological convictions. Over the course of a week, signs of aging appeared to reverse and the men looked visibly younger. The subjects’ joints became more flexible, their posture straightened, and the lengths of their fingers, which typically shorten with age, actually increased...
...days. Once the remodeling of Loker Commons—where the new campus pub, Queen’s Head, is under construction—is complete, Fly-by will return to its old home under Annenberg. According to Martin, the new Fly-by space has also been redesigned to shorten lines and speed up the process...
Students who miss appointments at University Health Services will find themselves out of pocket starting Oct. 16, when the University begins charging $10 for each absence. The move is an effort to shorten waiting lists at the University’s medical and mental health services. According to the director of University Health Services (UHS), David S. Rosenthal ’59, the fine was recommended by the Student Health Planning Center, a group of administrators and students that expressed concern about the cost of “dinkas”—patients whose records are marked with...
...expansionists--and Roosevelt was both--began clamoring for the construction of a canal across Central America, one that, given the turbulent nature of international politics, must be completely under U.S. control. Facing large potential threats in the Atlantic and the Pacific, the U.S. had no choice but to shorten the route between the East and West coasts...
...tried to patch things up later over sandwiches at Rumsfeld's office. But what's really eating Republicans isn't just Rumsfeld's manners; it's his war. It was Rumsfeld who ordered his reluctant generals to keep the U.S. invasion force relatively small last winter in order to shorten the war--though that has left the U.S. with what many believe is an occupying army too small to pacify, disarm and rebuild the fractured Iraqi nation. Five Americans died in combat last week, and the Baghdad hotel where Rumsfeld's deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, was staying came under attack...