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...London, as with any host, it underlines the need for "testing, testing, testing," as Rogge urged for the Vancouver Games. The message seems to have got through. "We have an entire year built in to make sure we test, test, test," says Joanna Manning-Cooper, spokeswoman for the London organizing committee. In 2011, organizers will try out all 26 of the Games' venues, mounting everything from "mass participation jamborees" to full-blown international meets in order to test catering, toilets, turnstiles and transport...
...final part of the experiment, Zhong and his colleagues re-ran the sunglasses test, but also asked the participants to complete a questionnaire in which they agreed or disagreed on a 1-to-7 scale with statements like "I was anonymous during the study," "I was watched during the study" and "Others were paying attention to my behavior during the study." Again, the people wearing sunglasses scored significantly higher on the perception of anonymity study, even though they all rationally knew the glasses made no difference. (See the 25 crimes of the century...
Zittrain told the audience that he ran a test to determine the words the Chinese government censors online and found that the four most censored topics are pornography, church, drugs, and politics...
...know that Georgetown is a better team than Canisius,” Cohen said. “We’re really excited and it will be a good test for us. We think it will be a great opportunity to show that Harvard is for real this year...
With hopes of beating Georgetown for the first time, Harvard is putting in extra time on the field and in the locker room to make sure that each player is ready for the test tomorrow...