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...this is hardly the case. While she admits “I was just never cut out to make it as a physicist,” Videt has found a unique way to combine her seemingly irreconcilable interests in art and science. In order to help her test the boundaries between theater and physics, Videt designed a special concentration. She—advised by professors in both the English and physics department—is thus able to explore her fascination with expressing intellectual ideas through artistic means. “Harvard is a place where artists can flourish...
Lewis has also been heavily criticized for putting the bank in a financial position where it is unlikely to pass the government's bank stress test which means it will have to raise more money. Among other things, this will dilute common shareholders and may even jeopardize the value of some of the bank's bonds...
According to Heller, Influenza A cases can be diagnosed in a matter of hours at University medical centers using a "rapid flu" test, but any further diagnosis had to come from the laboratory at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The results of the state test could be days in coming, Heller said, but the case in question did not raise any red flags...
...done by Daniel Kahneman and the late Amos Tversky in the 1970s and '80s. The partners developed a number of experiments that proved even smart people will arrive at wrong answers to fairly simple questions, depending on how information is presented to them. In one example, they told test subjects about a woman named Linda, who "is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright." They added that Linda "majored in philosophy," "was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination" and "participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations...
...State representative Josh Shapiro, who had been close to announcing a run for the Senate seat but backed off on Tuesday, echoed Sestak's point that Specter would need to demonstrate that he is representing the interests of Pennsylvanians, who strongly supported Barack Obama in the 2008 election. The test for Specter, he said, will be to "make sure the Obama agenda is acted upon and not stifled...