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...luxurious product they can afford. But Griskevicius and his colleagues - Joshua Taylor of the University of New Mexico and Bram Van den Bergh of the Rotterdam School of Management - theorized that when given an eco-friendly alternative, competitive altruism would compel people to forgo luxury for environmental status. To test the theory, they conducted several experiments...
...teachers called her to the front of her Atlanta public-school classroom, Evelynn M. Hammonds—the first black woman to serve as Dean of Harvard College—thought she would be recognized for an ‘A’ she had recently earned on a test...
...When HUCTW was young, in the ’80s, Harvard administrators actively campaigned against the union, which consequently found itself pushed to the margins as an outsider group of negligible influence. Back then, involvement was a test of bravery: “It was bold and scary to be involved in the union at that point because there was this feeling that the powerful University was against it,” Jaeger says...
...reduce others’ thoughts to halfway comprehensible scribbles.[no paragraph break here] Part of the trick to remaining sane while sitting still for so long is to allow the mind to wander invisibly. At best, it wanders to a place where the lecturer’s ideas are tested and challenged, which means that one has also missed ten minutes of the ongoing lecture. At worst, the mind simply counts the minutes until class is over. There is never a guarantee that all, or even most students, will, by the end of the term, be able to articulate most...
...dislike talk of reducing the need for abortion, since they view this as code for promoting forms of contraception that they view as equally immoral. To them, there is no "mystery" about when life begins. These positions are, as Obama says, "irreconcilable." (Read "Robert Gibbs: No Abortion Litmus Test...