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Regardless of whether financial aid officials make a conscious choice to be biased in the face of such incentives, they cannot avoid distorting their preferences on a subconscious level. Humans have a fundamental psychological need to reciprocate; a study shows that when doctors received free gourmet lunches from pharmaceutical companies, a significant increase in sales from prescriptions was measured. Even when cheaper generic alternatives were available, doctors prescribed more expensive proprietary drugs after accepting such gifts. Why should financial aid officers be any more immune than doctors to basic human proclivities...
...individuals to recognize the scale of the problem and that while their contributions are important, they are not going to be significant unless in addition to taking personal action, they encourage government policy that ensures emission reductions are made on a scale and pace that is needed to avoid the dangerous consequences of global warming," explains Daniel Lashof, the science director of the Natural Resources Defense Council climate center...
Some Chinese are so spooked by the prospect of divorce that they avoid marriage altogether. Last year 8.23 million couples wed nationwide, 441,000 fewer than in 2004. Those that do get hitched aren't shy about specifying exactly what they want. "For young women in Shanghai, one of their main requirements in marriage is a man who has his own apartment, car and some savings," says marriage counselor Shu. But a fat bank account alone doesn't ensure a happy marriage. "In China today, materialism is being pursued at the expense of traditional values like love," frets Xia Xueluan...
...academic careers, the report argues that the Core’s “emphasis on the disciplines may be misplaced.” But Harvard is, for better or for worse, a liberal arts college and not a technical or pre-professional school. The suggestion that we should avoid the heart of a liberal arts education merely because most students do not intend to remain in the academic world is ludicrous. Liberal arts education cannot simply be concerned with what is practical; if we begin going down that path, why not go the whole way and compose a Core...
...Mahdi Army and U.S. forces have clashed openly several times in the past three years, fighting sometimes for days in battles that end inconclusively with uneasy truces. Today, senior officials on both sides insist they hope to avoid another round of bloodletting. And yet the mounting violence in the capital looks set to draw them into a new confrontation...