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...study that led to their conclusion, Liston and Kagan ran experiments on three age groups—nine-, 17- and 24-month-old children—that tested the child’s ability to mimic new but easily imitated actions like placing a towel in a trash can or wheeling a toy truck across the floor...

Author: By Kimberly A. Kicenuik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professor Admits Citation Omissions | 2/26/2003 | See Source »

...well worth the effort. Shad has a cardio space about the same size as the MAC’s (but serving a population less than one-tenth the size), men’s and women’s saunas and whirlpools, squash courts, a golf training facility and free towel service, among other amenities. It’s also a pleasant place to workout. The walls are hung with athletic-themed original art, and the whole place is bright and airy...

Author: By Molly J. Moore, | Title: Calling for a Healthier Harvard | 2/25/2003 | See Source »

...start vast hog farms. As you might expect, Dollar goes native. Along the way, he and the reader learn about skies "the color of cold tea" and endlessly shape-shifting weather. They find their way around places where the wet heat falls on you "like a barber's towel," where a meticulous local looks like a man "who spent his formative years in a trouser press" and where a cagey old woman brushes off Dollar's suspicious flatteries with "I have discovered that young men's blandishments are simply too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tilting at Windmills | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

...never run Primal Scream and is “really freaked out about being naked,” Curry has had a surprising number of skin-baring moments. He recalls how, during his first year in Greenough, living on the ground floor, he emerged from the shower, dropped his towel to change, and looked out the three large windows facing Prescott Street to find a crowd of people waving at him. These are moments the modest Curry would prefer to forget. Fans of the Advocate Men’s Issue, however, may remember “his” naked...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Seniors, Part I | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

Given that most men don't buy new clothes until the ones they have are irredeemably stained or torn, how do retailers get them to acquire more khakis and buttoned-down shirts when they already have several in their closet? In effect, by throwing in the towel. A wave of new products suggests that manufacturers are finally conceding that they will never get most men interested in high fashion. So, helped by new technology, they are appealing to men's baser fashion instincts and habits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look, Ma, No Stains | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

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