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...natural cycle.” Hoxby said that increased, visible expenditures serve as crucial encouragement for potential donors and create “linkage” between donations and FAS initiatives.Hoxby also said fundraising concerns were a key reason for University Hall’s sudden, unexpected halt to faculty growth this summer.“We’re having a bit of a breather this year so the development office can catch up with us,” Hoxby said.But professors who rose to speak after hearing the committee’s report were markedly skeptical...
...years ago, few could have imagined that he would take the bold steps necessary to move the peace process forward. Of all the strengths that Sharon displayed during his decades in Israeli politics, willingness to compromise never was among them. And yet, as we contemplate Sharon’s sudden exit from political life, triggered by a massive stroke from which the chance of a full recovery appears slim, we worry about the consequences for a peace process that, largely as a result of his actions, has steadily gained momentum in recent months.Sharon, like the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat...
...Virtually all of them. Many people believe creativity comes in a sudden moment of insight and that this "magical" burst of an idea is a different mental process from our everyday thinking. But extensive research has shown that when you're creative, your brain is using the same mental building blocks you use every day?like when you figure out a way around a traffic...
...creative people work, asking them to describe their thought processes out loud or interrupting them frequently to ask how close they were to a solution. Invariably, they were closer than they realized. In other experiments, subjects worked on problems that, when solved, tend to result in the sensation of sudden insight. In one experiment, they were asked to look at words that came up one at a time on a computer screen and to think of the one word that was associated with all of them. After each word?red, nut, bowl, loom, cup, basket, jelly, fresh, cocktail, candy...
Athletes in the throes of a slump will swear that it came all of a sudden, out of nowhere. But psychologists say the episodes are less mysterious than they seem. They usually stem from a failure to prepare mentally for the pressure of athletic competition. "Training is about strengthening the mind-body connection," says Kirsten Peterson, sports psychologist for the U.S. Olympic Committee. "Athletes need to train their mind with the same discipline that they train their bodies...