Word: waiting
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...measure self-control, the 3-year-olds were left alone in a room with a bunch of toys - one of which was a known favorite - for 150 seconds. They were instructed to play with the other toys but not to touch the favored one. Children who were able to wait 75 seconds or longer before touching the favorite plaything were scored by the researchers as having high self-control. Children who went for the forbidden toy within 75 seconds were labeled as having low self-control...
Ahhhh…. Opening Day at Fenway Park. Warm sunshine, the smell of freshly cut grass, that first delicious bite of a Fenway Frank, the crack of the bat as Big Papi puts one over the Green Monster. Oh wait, just kidding. It’s actually raining, hovering around 44 degrees, and Opening Day was just cancelled. Thank you New England weather...
...United States currently has no laws prohibiting cosmetic trait selection; Dr. Steinberg describes the field as “an uncharted road.” But now that designer babies are a very real possibility, it is important that we act now to prevent a human catastrophe rather than wait until Babies “R” Us becomes more than a brand for baby clothes...
...wait. You didn’t realize your other suitemates also signed up for their own prefrosh, too? And your futon’s only got room for one? Hope you don’t mind sharing your bed with a complete stranger. (More potential prefrosh woes after the jump...
...join the world of dorm rooms, frat parties and communal bathrooms as were the many classes that came before them. "Oh man," says Mark Harber, an 18-year-old from Tulsa, Okla., who joined Vanderbilt's 2013 group within hours of receiving his acceptance letter. "I can't wait...