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...said that the fading effects of the stimulus??which will reach its peak impact over the summer—and the Obama administration’s impending budget cutbacks add up to “a pretty significant turn towards contractionary policy taking place over the next year or so in the face of a deeply depressed economy...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Krugman Compares Obama's Policies to Government Stance in Great Depression | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

...forge a compromise bill for President Obama’s approval. The Senate bill was approved along party lines, with all 37 opposition votes coming from Republicans. Economics and public policy professor Kenneth S. Rogoff said that compared to the trillions of dollars being spent on the overall economic stimulus??the Treasury also announced a new $2 trillion bank bailout yesterday—the funding for science was “small change.” But he added that he believes federal spending for science is invaluable and that biotech has been...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senate Stimulus Would Up NIH Funding | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...October of 1957—when many of the graduates attending their 50th reunion this week were beginning their senior year of college—the Faculty Committee on Regional Studies at Harvard established the Center for East Asian Studies in order to give “cohesion and stimulus?? to graduate training and research associated with East Asia. The Crimson ran a short article covering the Center’s formation, noting that its plans called for “more intensive study of Japan, Korea, and other potential trouble areas...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: Let the Subaltern Speak | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...Psychology Ellen J. Langer, who specializes in the pyschology of control, aging, and decision-making, agreed. “Positive experiences lead to positive sentiments,” she said yesterday afternoon. Jee added that similar results were likely to occur if students were given a negative external stimulus??such as a bad exam grade—before completing an evaluation. The pair said they became interested in the accuracy of evaluations during their own reviews. They chose chocolate for the study because they had noticed that distributing treats around evaluation time was a fairly common practice among...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Study: Chocolate Betters Course Ratings | 10/23/2007 | See Source »

...research—which focused on the autonomic nervous system’s response to stimulus??shows that the human body might be hard-wired with a sixth sense to predict threatening events about three seconds in advance, according to the researchers, Edwin C. May and Joseph W. McMoneagle...

Author: By Sarah M. Seltzer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Parapsychologist Tells Of Sixth Human Sense | 3/13/2002 | See Source »

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