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While no one makes a major Division I hockey team without a considerable amount of skill, by the time he was in high school Kim realized he would not last long on talent alone...
According to Mekalanos, Amos will be remembered not only for his accomplishments, but also for his skill as an educator...
...That sounds simple, but self-control can be a slippery thing. A study in the current issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research sheds some light on why. According to the study's author, Roy Baumeister, a social psychologist at Florida State University, self-control is neither an acquired skill nor a logical cognitive process. Rather, he says, it's an exhaustible resource that operates like a well: it is emptied with use and refilled with rest. To test this theory, Baumeister gave subjects a variety of exercises designed to tax their self-control. In one of them, a group...
...modern mix of string instruments and synthesizers, played with intelligence and skill by local Cambridge music group The Empty House Cooperative, conveys a stirring and bleak picture of this musical mini-epic. Repeated cycles of slow, minimal phrases contrasted with sharp, often jilting rhythms give a sense of the shock and unrelenting memories that accompany war veterans...
...these international students seem to be quick studies. Both Palmer-Amaning and Kabue, perhaps spurred on by their love of grinding, have spent time in the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballroom Dance Club, something that has earned some gentle mockery from friends back home. But Palmer-Amaning found his new-found skills served him well. “It is a very useful skill to know how to turn a girl around,” he explains. Kabue, though, has a slightly less positive view of the practical benefits of learning to dance at Harvard. “I think the girls...