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...settled on the yogurt business. Wallace said that though he and Yang had been warned that opening a business while doing post-doctoral research was not feasible, “We left the naysayers behind in California.” But Yang admits that the process has taken its toll. “In the past two months, we haven’t slept more than five hours a night,” said Yang. “But pairing up has made it easier.” “I feel like I have a mini-MBA after...
...wear and tear of the four-match weekend took its toll on the Harvard women’s volleyball squad, as the squad fell to Northeastern, 3-1 (30-28, 29-31, 24-30, 19-30), yesterday evening at Lavietes Pavilion. “The mental stamina through four matches for the weekend is tough,” head coach Jennifer Weiss said. “We started out awesome, but they pushed at us, and we didn’t respond.” Hot off Saturday’s victories against Hartford (6-9) and NJIT...
However, to the players and coaches, the non-Ivy tilts aren’t meaningless, and pride is high stakes. The emotional toll on the Crimson of the last-minute loss at Holy Cross in the season opener—the undefeated season, the perfection of ’01 and ’04, gone in the flash of a Dominic Randolph deep ball—is impossible to predict. It’s a sensation that no one on the team has felt before in his collegiate career, having a midseason winning percentage...
Buying at these moments of acute uncertainty takes an emotional toll. Guy Spier, a friend who runs a hedge fund in New York, says he's bought several battered stocks lately, knowing that "You make your money in the panics, then collect it when everything is fine again." But "it's agonizingly difficult," he admits. "The rational part of your brain is struggling with all these emotions, which are telling you: 'This company is going bust...
...time of the International AIDS Conference in 2000, thousands of South Africans were no longer willing to accept the paralyzing silence. Huge crowds filled the streets of Durban demanding that the public, their government, and the nations of the developed world open their eyes to the gruesome toll that the pandemic was taking. Besides the sheer number of people rallying for change, the most striking thing about these demonstrators was the T-shirts they wore, which read “HIV POSITIVE” in bold, purple lettering...