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...pound order would not make it to Harvard Yard until Monday. Campillo said that at 11:30 on Monday morning a UPS driver called to tell him that he had arrived—at 8 Holworthy Place, in Boston. The driver eventually arrived on campus, but as he was unfamiliar with the route and unable to find a loading dock at the Science Center, he returned to the UPS distribution center, Campillo said. Campillo placed 13 calls between 1:45 p.m. and the boxes’ 3:45 p.m. arrival, including an initial call where “two different...
...killing 49 deer in one weekend. Mackenzie is right at home in the landscape, with the double-humpbacked mountain of Suilven and the Abhainn na Clach Airigh River rushing through the moorlands. But last August, as he strode out to bag his first stag of the season, everything seemed unfamiliar. For the first time in his 42 years, Mackenzie didn't have to look over his shoulder. For the first time, he wasn't a criminal trespassing on the property of absentee landlords. Who owns Scotland? On the whole, not the Scots. Until last June, the 17,800 hectares...
...They lose reasons to do the right thing. "One of the things that keeps people straight is the fact that there are people who are important to them around. They don't want to embarrass themselves," says Alfred Blumstein, a criminologist at Carnegie Mellon. "As you disperse people into unfamiliar environments, without these people they care about, there is less control over them, and they could become more troublesome...
...Behavior for Stanford students outside of class.Academic honor codes operate on a mutual understanding between students and faculty. In this beautifully simple and effective “I scratch your back, you scratch mine” system, students are trusted to do their own work in a manner entirely unfamiliar to most Harvard students. Professors have the convenience of distributing examinations via e-mail or other methods to their students, who are trusted to complete exams wherever they choose, outside of the watchful eye of proctors or teaching fellows. If one student finds a fellow student violating the academic honor...
...resurgent left. But as he flew into in Puerto Iguazu, Argentina, on Thursday to try and head off a rift between his left-wing allies Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina over Bolivia's abrupt nationalizaton of its natural gas and oil industries this week, Chavez suddenly found himself in the unfamiliar role of quiet diplomat. And his success or failure may well determine whether or not he becomes the sort of regional leader he's always aspired to be - and which his avowed enemy, the Bush Administration, wants to make sure he never becomes...