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...When you're on a date, if you understand your primary type and the type of person whom you're going out with," suggests Fisher, "you can better reach them and create more intimacy." (One telltale sign: the ring fingers of directors are longer than their index fingers.) In the future, might singletons be able to use a blood test to zero in on prospective mates, saving us a lot of effort and enabling us to wear jewelry? "Possibly," she says...
...forthcoming results of employees' health-risk assessments, conducted last fall with high staff participation, thanks to a program that allowed workers to take medical tests on-site. Boyd asks, "What are some of the other chronic conditions our employees have? Do they need to work on cardiovascular? Depression? Asthma-type issues?" Whether it's a persistent illness or a failed New Year's resolution, maybe a well-placed nudge can help get them back on track...
...radical idea. Everyone I knew at Harvard had always dated the same kinds of people: Classics concentrators, Hist & Lit boys, the occasional social theorist. My female friends had converged on an ideal type. Emaciated and elusive: the Humanities Heartbreak. By senior year, everyone was getting tired of this—even our parents. “The next time you see a skinny, neurotic boy,” my friend’s mother advised, “don’t date him.” Could people like us find love outside the humanities? To freshmen, this question...
...often consider more than the just the odds of winning when deciding whether to settle. “[The situation] was becoming a taint on Zuckerberg’s reputation,” he said. “Sometimes businesses decide it’s best to settle this type of thing.” A spokesman from Quinn Emanuel declined to comment, citing the firm’s policy. Representatives from ConnectU and Facebook could not be reached yesterday. —Staff writer Sean R. Ouellette can be reached at soullet@fas.harvard.edu...
...both books use the time span of four key days to piece together the meaning of family through four different points of view; both extensively utilize stream-of-consciousness style in order to do so; and both feature sons with mental retardation that gives way to a type of clairvoyance. Phillips gives an explicit nod of acknowledgment to Faulkner and the inevitable parallels readers will draw between them. However, there is a key difference. While Faulkner’s characters are riddled with vice that brings them to ruin, Phillips’ characters are more hopeful. While this makes...