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Fingers of the male pool tended to be longer than the average male’s, he found—a trait explained by unusually high levels of estrogen. You know, the female hormone. Turns out a little bit of extra breast fat can go a long way in the laboratory...
...transfer veterans, respectively—who were prepared to help me get acclimated to my new surroundings. The Links threw us a party, and it was then that I made my first and closest Harvard friendship. We bonded over music, books, and a keen sense of wanderlust, a trait that took us on 2 a.m. runs to rural Connecticut and spur-of-the-moment interstate memory trips. Things were starting to look good...
According to his teachers and classmates at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan University, Kundal Kamle's defining trait was his relentless sense of injustice. A humanities undergraduate and student-union leader, Kamle spent much of his time whipping up political passions, hectoring passersby through megaphones and blocking the main road outside the campus with banners or burning tires. His causes ran the gamut from human rights to the price of gas. "Sometimes I liked him and I thought what he said was right," says Keshab Kumar Shrestha, an anthropology lecturer. "But other times he annoyed me. He was just too much...
...certainly takes away your momentum, you get up thinking you’re going to be fine, maybe you’ve got a go-ahead here, and boom: they come back and score quickly. That’s a trait of a good team,” Hudak said...
...Ulrich Horstmann, an aerospace analyst with Bayerische Landesbank in Munich. Don't think Stonecipher isn't aware of that. He recently approved the firing of the head of Boeing's sales team. Stonecipher admits that his company has been overconfident in the past but says he sees the same trait among the Airbus troops: "Arrogance is just awful. It will kill you." So Stonecipher is hopeful, if not completely happy. And, yes, he has some travel plans in the very near future. --With reporting by James Graff/Paris