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...Searches for types of vehicles can also be telling, namely information on gas-guzzling SUVs and energy-efficient hybrids. Searches for hybrid vehicles spike in unison with pump prices, but our interest quickly retreats at the first sign of a drop. Searches for SUVs are counterintuitive. When gas prices go up, searches on these vehicles do not go down...
...Notorious,” choreographed by Katherine N. Howard ’07 and Ingrid Maurice ’07, featured several stunning step sequences that were performed with almost military precision. The dance culminated in a riveting moment where the dancers, in a pyramid configuration, moved completely in unison to The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Spit Your Game.” The piece finished with a bang when Deborah Y. Ho ’07 was launched over the heads of her fellow dancers. The highlight of the entire performance was, without a doubt...
...case in point: I take the subway to and from work, and shortly before I get home, my train emerges from underground, back into the world of sunlight and cell-phone reception. As it does, everybody on the train performs the same gesture in unison. We dip into our bags, briefcases, purses and pockets for whatever mobile digital device we carry. This is the behavior not of enlightened digital consumers but of addicts caught in an epidemic...
...real fans understand deep down that their team and its fate are simultaneously both important and meaningless. It's this contradiction that is part of the agony, the ecstasy, the religious-like joy of being a fan. The leap of faith in unison with thousands of others that what you're all watching matters profoundly. Healthy sports lovers care passionately not because they truly think sport is a matter of life and death, but despite the fact they know it's not. When fanaticism starts hurting people, killing them, even, that contradiction vanishes and so does...
...that would go towards wind energy. To boost publicity, I built an eight-foot windmill with my bare hands. We yelled, we postered, we e-mailed, and the referendum passed with a resounding 82 percent of the vote. That spring, however, the administrators all shook their heads in unison. President Summers even issued a special fiat expressly forbidding termbill fees. We found ourselves shrugged off into meetings with assistants, all the fall’s energy blowing away like dust in the proverbial wind. As a freshman, I was in way over my head. Fresh off Lester Brown?...