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...should have.”It was not a total disappointment for the lightweight squad, as the team only lost by that three-second margin while racing poorly. The defeat also gives Radcliffe extra motivation for Eastern Sprints in two weeks—it is a wake-up call to get the team re-focused.“Princeton raced really well, but that race is not indicative of the speed we can have,” Antony said. “The loss is a great motivating factor to help drive us because we could get complacent with winning...
Incorporating practical classes like positive psychology—courses that teach students to enjoy their college experience—into the new core curriculum might be a step in the right direction. Unless they change their mindset, Harvard’s stressed out students are unlikely to suddenly wake-up and appreciate the amazing opportunities available on campus and in the Boston area. While a creative social events board might produce activities that are interesting to undergraduates at Harvard, students whose plates are full with other obligations will surely not be in attendance...
...fires set in Vail, Colo., by protesters from Earth Liberation Front were an environmental wake-up call for the ski industry, Auden Schendler, 35, is a triple shot of espresso. Hired the next year by Aspen Skiing Co. (ASC), he has become the most visible of a crop of experts charged with cleaning up the industry's act. Between keeping the lodges toasty and draining the creeks for snowmaking, downhill-skiing companies in the late 1990s were major consumers of natural resources. And ASC, which now operates four mountains, two hotels and 12 restaurants in the Aspen-Snowmass area...
Those apocalyptic strains haunt Apocalypto, which takes place in an opulent but decaying Maya kingdom, whose leaders insist that if the gods are not appeased by more temples and human sacrifices, the crops will die. But the writers hope that the larger themes of decline will be a wake-up call. "The parallels between the environmental imbalance and corruption of values that doomed the Maya and what's happening to our own civilization are eerie," says Safinia. Gibson, who insists ideology matters less to him than stories of "penitential hardship" like his Oscar-winning Braveheart, puts it more bluntly...
...what happened in the immediate aftermath of Samarra as a strategic warning to the Iraqi society and Iraqi leadership and hopefully a wake-up call in terms of what the potential threat is, and therefore, what needs to be done...