Word: weeks
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...pajamas watching “Say What? Karaoke” on MTV. Spring break was a time when college kids assumed their parents had a temporary loss of television or eyesight, or a time when college students in warm places went to slightly warmer places for a week. For me, a pale Jew with uptight parents, one who burns at the smallest suggestion of sunlight and craves cold, foggy weather (eat your heart out, Stephenie Meyer) the idea didn’t sound too appealing...
When it comes down to it, I guess, I can only recommend that at one point during college, you drop everything, piss off your parents, and go abroad—for a week, for a summer, for a semester. Do something stupid. Make new friends. Do nothing for a long period of time without thinking about work. Then come back and return to the land of worry and G-chats and stalking ISawYouHarvard, a few regrets and pounds heavier. It’s the American...
...Last week, Harvard and MIT researchers published a study supporting the idea that using magnets on the brain can affect moral decision-making. Study participants were subjected to transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, to confuse the neurons in the brain’s moral center. Either during or after this treatment, subjects listened to fictional scenarios and judged the morality of the characters involved. Treated participants showed slight but consistent changes in moral judgment, condemning accidental transgressions but forgiving failed villainous acts...
...Assembly meeting in New York, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel extended an invitation to the keynote speaker, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. He asked that Dr. King join him in April for a Passover Seder in his family’s New York apartment. On April 4th, only a week before King was to sit at Rabbi Heschel’s table, James Earl Ray shot and killed Reverend King outside his Memphis hotel room...
...distant future we would attain a world whose citizens enjoyed “freedom from want”—a world in which a mother would never have to choose between taking her child to the doctor and feeding her family for a week; a world in which a father would never have to sacrifice his daughter’s education to be able to provide for his family...