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...California, San Francisco, School of Medicine; it's hard to imagine someone with more experience or better credentials. Even so, he was taken by surprise when he gave a low dose of a moderate sedative called midazolam, designed to put the patient into a semiconscious state, somewhere between sleep and wakefulness--and the man stopped breathing. "There is no way of predicting that a patient would have responded that way," he says. "I've been doing this for years, so I was prepared." He managed to revive...
Innovation is an evocative word. But the image it most frequently conjures--a lone, sleep-deprived genius slaving away in a cluttered garage--is also the most misleading. In reality, says SRI International CEO Curtis Carlson, "you can invent by yourself, but you can't innovate that way." He ought to know. For six decades, SRI, based in Menlo Park, Calif, has endured as a prolific incubator of money-minting ideas, playing a key role in creating everything from the computer mouse to the HDTV standard, which Carlson helped develop. Over the past 20 years, Carlson has searched...
...shooting). Without a single NBA player on their roster, the Greeks executed the most basic NBA-type play - the pick and roll - to near-perfection. So here's another one of those questions: Would a pro head coach - who sees the pick and roll in his sleep - have designed a better defense, or adjusted sooner...
Intramural crew: 1. Harvard’s answer to House quidditch. 2. Participants wake up when everyone else is going to sleep. 3. Legitimate excuse for making a general mockery of your senior spring coursework (see Extension...
Reading Period: 1. Two weeks to read a semester’s worth of text and write four 30-page papers. 2. In the winter, an extension of Christmas vacation. 3. Best time of the year to party and sleep in, unless you have introductory language courses, which meet all week...