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...everyone will profit, however. India's bureaucracy still moves slowly, and huge social and infrastructural demands on the country's budget compete with defense spending. Jerry Powlen, Vice President of Integrated Communication Systems for U.S. defense contractor Raytheon, acknowledges that sales growth in India has been "slower than anyone had hoped it would be." But he says the emerging country is crucial for future growth. India "is one of the most important markets for us as a company going forward and the United States wants to foster good relations with India," he says. "It gets better every...
...Senior co-captain Jaclyn Pangilinan, last year’s winner of the 100-yard breaststroke at the HYP meet, brought home a third-place and two fourth-place finishes for her team this year. She touched the wall in 1:05.67 in the 100-yard breaststroke, two seconds slower than her time last year but good enough for third. She grabbed fourth in both the 200-yard breaststroke and the 200-yard IM. Fellow co-captain Hart, likewise, was not able to repeat the success she had at last year’s HYP meet due to an injury...
...David F. “Ricky” Kuperman ’11 showcased his considerable talent in a self-choreographed piece to Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah.” Kuperman successfully incorporated stunning jump sequences into the slower choreography and seamlessly moved to and from floor work in a way that the other slow jazz pieces could...
...with a fellow passenger isn't nearly as distracting. "There is something about talking on the phone that trips up the brain," says David Strayer, the study's author and a professor of psychology at the University of Utah, whose previous research found that drivers on cell phones were slower to react and five times more likely to have an accident than other motorists. "We are learning that there is something important about the production of speech and the role linguistics play in multitasking...
...find Harvard easy, but disabled students have a particularly difficult time. Often reliant on sophisticated technology, disabled people do the same work at a slower pace. Additionally, college institutions designed to help them can sometimes be a hindrance amid intermittent delays and unclear expectations. Fortunately, much of this appears to be a problem of organization that could be solved by streamlining and improving resources for disabled students.Over the past twenty years, new technology and legal protections have enabled students with disabilities to attend college in greater numbers. In 1990, 40 students registered with Harvard as disabled; today that number...