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...researchers collected the envelopes and reviewed the results at the end of the five-minute period, what they found was striking. Consistently, the people in the dimmer room reported finding more matches - an average of 11.47 - than those in the bright room, who averaged just 7.78. When their work was checked, it turned out that cheating was rife in the dim room, with the participants there claiming an average of 4.21 more correct answers than they actually got, compared with 0.83 for the other room. Even though none of the subjects put their name on their paper and all were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Shady Deeds Are More Likely to Happen in the Dark | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...life-threatening E. coli infections, are a serious public-health threat in the U.S., resulting in 5,000 deaths and 325,000 hospitalizations each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). When tallied up, the consequences of foodborne illness - including doctor visits, medication, lost work days and pain and suffering - cost the U.S. an estimated $152 billion annually. That figure was reported on Wednesday in a new study by the Produce Safety Project, an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting a Price Tag on Food Unsafety | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...surveillance state due to the politicization of judges. It would be risible to suggest that any judicial system is apolitical, but it is insulting to categorically impugn the judicial temperament of the many sober men and women on the bench who have made it their life’s work to interpret the complex issues of American constitutional law. Citing the politicization of the judiciary to delegitimize its judgments on one issue delegitimizes our entire judicial system, since it calls into question the fitness of our judges to adjudicate any issue...

Author: By Karthik R. Kasaraneni and Dhruv K. Singhal | Title: Nothing to Hide | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...search of individuality, admissions offices are employing ever-new methods to aid in explaining the particular qualities inherent to a college.  Recently, videos has emerged as the favored way to reach this goal. But videos can also expose similarities, which can, to some degree, actually work against the purpose of underlining the differences of a college that would make a prospective student decide upon that institution over another.  For example, when the infamous “That’s Why I Chose Yale...” video was released, I heard many Harvard students mention...

Author: By Ayse Baybars | Title: Harvard: Home or Hogwarts | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...continuing to work with the respective House Masters on this matter and expect to have more clarity on this issue later in March,” he wrote...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lowell to Occupy Floor of DeWolfe | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

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