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...relieved to be free of the Communist regime in Vietnam. When the Lus got off a plane for the first time in the United States, in Seattle, the eldest sister, Nanci, then just a girl, remembers charity workers giving the entire family warm winter coats to ward off the unfamiliar chill of the Pacific Northwest. "I was only 7, but that's something I'll never forget." The Lu family had finally left the war behind...
...jeans and t-shirt complaint, however, is unfamiliar to Assistant Dean Paul J. McLoughlin II, who oversees the BAT team process. “I am concerned about the appearance complaint,” he writes in an e-mail. “This is the first time I have heard of this complaint and will certainly look into [it].” Apparently, there are other complaints Dean McLoughlin has not heard...
Fickle nature also had a hand in Harvard’s midfield woes. Inclement weather aggravated unfamiliar conditions, as the Crimson traded the familiar artificial turf of Jordan Field for BC’s natural grass, made sloppier and less predictable by a rainy...
...examples of people doing nothing at all. He was even able to re-create the effect in his lab. He found that about 45% of people in his experiment shut down (that is, stopped moving or speaking for 30 sec. or often longer) when asked under pressure to perform unfamiliar but basic tasks. "They quit functioning. They just sat there," Johnson remembers. It seemed horribly maladaptive. How could so many people be hard-wired to do nothing in a crisis...
...something highly unusual. While waiting for takeoff, he studied the 747's safety diagram. He looked for the closest exit, and he pointed it out to his wife. He had been in a theater fire as a boy, and ever since, he always checked for the exits in an unfamiliar environment. When the planes collided, Heck's brain had the data it needed. He could work on automatic, whereas other people's brains plodded through the storm of new information. "Humans behave much more appropriately when they know what to expect--as do rats," says Cynthia Corbett, a human-factors...