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...virtual money that can be used to reimburse the driver of the carpool for half of the gas used on any given trip.For now, Shiftan, Corker, and a few investors are funding this part of the service. Once the service is available on a widespread scale, participating employers must pay a monthly fee so their employees can use GOOSE as a perk. Shiftan, who concentrated in Computer Science at Harvard, wrote the code for GOOSE and created the company’s website, www.readysetgoose.com.“I haven’t slept much since April,” Shifton...
...previous studies of this sort conducted were cross-sectional and therefore limited to the present state.” According to David Sparrow, the study’s second author and the principal investigator in the VA Boston Health Care System, the findings of the study support the widespread view that negative emotions can have physiological impacts—for example, by causing chronic inflammation in the lungs. While Kubzansky describes the results of the study as “definitive,” she says that it is too early to infer causal relationships from the data...
Reactions like that of Cross are widespread. Even though athletic department higher-ups assert that the plan to renovate the MAC has been under way for a long time, it seems that at no point was any effort made to reassure those varsity athletes whose teams make their homes on the upper floors of the building...
...classic image of the TV superfan is the minutiae-obsessed, Vulcan-eared Star Trek fan, played by Jon Lovitz opposite William Shatner in a classic Saturday Night Live skit. Today the Lovitzization of entertainment is widespread. When Lost used stock footage from Norway to depict the founder of the Hanso Foundation--the apparent prime mover behind its conspiracy--Norwegian fans went nuts speculating over their homeland's connection to the mystery...
...past, moments like this have produced what political scientists call "wave elections," in which voters oust even lawmakers who don't seem vulnerable and political icons lose to underfunded unknowns. In 1948 there was widespread disappointment with the Republican-held "do nothing" Congress. It turned out to be an easy target for President Truman's Democrats, who retook both chambers. Such waves can sneak up. In September 1994 a Congressional Quarterly columnist, voicing the conventional wisdom of the time, wrote that the G.O.P.'s chances of taking the House were "dim." Two months later, Newt Gingrich and company capitalized...