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...experiment conducted by Harvard Medical School researchers, some students slept eight hours, while the other half stayed awake for 35 hours. Near the end of the second day, students were placed in an MRI scanner, as pictures flashed before them, said the study’s leader, psychologist Matthew Walker of University California at Berkeley. The first were relatively neutral, such as an empty wicker basket. But near the end of the 100-image sequence, the photos became more disturbing, such as one of severed limbs. Walker said students were initially “very amiable characters?...
...with Mandolin in Yellow and Red” (1950), painted in the year of his death, is a bright, bare-breasted swan song. The 40s are represented by a painting from the Busch-Reisinger’s own collection, which rounds out an engaging quartet. Fogg Art Museum Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) Through Nov. 11, 2007 Billed as, “A fitting tribute to Harvard’s new president,” “Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated...
When he was a child, Walker Miller would pick berries and bring them to his mother, who baked "the best blueberry pie you ever ate," he recalls. Today, Miller, 66, a retired Clemson University plant pathologist, has found a way to return to a bit of that past: he owns a 9-acre (3.6 hectares) pick-your-own farm in rural South Carolina, which he named the Happy Berry. At least some of the local children who pick blueberries for their mothers today pick them from Miller's fields. This pleases him--as does the simple hard work the place...
...What is the single most important thing we can all do to help fight HIV/AIDS? -Kairy Walker, MiamiBecome educated. There are so many myths and misconceptions about HIV/AIDS. The idea that you can get aids from holding hands or sharing food still runs rampant all over the world. In fact, we had to go to great lengths to protect Ana - and that isn't her real name - because of the discrimination against kids with HIV/AIDS...
...team. The women achieved their goal of placing within the top 10 teams of the invitation. Finishing 43rd in the women’s six-kilometer race was freshman Claire Richardson at 21:39. Freshman Jamie Olson followed soon after at 21:49, earning 53rd. Seniors Lauren Walker and Sarah Bourne were 81st and 83rd, respectively, with both finishing at 22:18. Cleaning up for the Crimson women were sophomore Caitlin Clifford (103rd), sophomore Stacy Carlson (109th), and freshman Eliza Ives (112th). Also of note was the performance of Cummins, who placed ninth in the women’s junior...