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About 200 students shuffled out of William James Hall last Tuesday convinced they had taken part in a twisted psychology experiment. Most were utterly confused, others just infuriated by the exceptionally unfair lottery used to determine enrollment into the popular class, commonly known as Psych 15. Far from any sick joke or experiment, the lottery was taken quite seriously by Professor of Psychology Daniel M. Wegner and his teaching staff, who arbitrarily decided to base class admission on the ability to find a seat in the packed hall...
...Treatment certainly prolongs peoples’ lives,” said Owens, who estimated that beginning treatment with new medicines early instead of “getting treatment when you’re sick and show up at your doctor’s office” allows HIV-positive individuals to live about a year and a half longer...
...sick of all the ads on the radio, you aren't alone. Demand for commercial free music is sending folks flocking to satellite radio at a rate of 347,000 subscribers a month, according to a new report by JPMorgan. The two service providers, Sirius and XM, have mainly courted car-radio listeners. Now the satellite guys are hooking up with tech firms to target home users with boom boxes, stereo tuners and handheld gadgets (aimed at iPod users). Is the gear ready for prime time? --By Daren Fonda...
...little nervous about the upcoming reading, especially having just recently recovered from pneumonia. “I did a reading in Worcester and there was a lot of smoke in the room, and the air conditioner didn’t work, and I just got so sick, I thought I was going to die,” he relates. “Then the guy behind me threw open the door, because they can see I was sick. All this air came in, and I just sat down on this stool there. The audience was very patient. They thought...
...half is “Cinémania,” a celebration of the movies that consists of a rattling list of movie stars, including some amusing pronunciations of famous names. Then Do The Bambi’s energy picks up, right when you’re getting sick of the digital age. While the simply-titled “Hungry!” explodes a minute and a half from the end with tremendous pick-up, velocity and an actual guitar line; but, of course, this is after three minutes of foods listed in French alternating with...