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Part of the Presidents' apparent shell shock could be attributed to pure exhaustion. They had been negotiating almost nonstop for three weeks and around the clock for several days before the signing ceremony. Part of their mood may have been introspection, a feeling of concern about just what they were doing and how it would be received by the most passionate combatants at home. It was inevitable that some diehards would consider the settlement, any settlement, unsatisfactory...
...When a student comes in the classroom, what is the first thing he does? He looks at the clock," Escalante said. He recounted a story of making a student who had been staring at the clock read the sign out loud...
Escalante, who was born in Bolivia and travelled to America at age 34, said he has a sign hanging under the clock in his classroom which reads, "Determination plus discipline plus hard work equals the way to success...
...reset a subject's biological clock according to light exposure, in a process called "entrainment," the lights in the suite can be raised to an intensity of 10,000 lux, which is about the intensity of sunlight at dawn or dusk...
Findings that have emerged from research on the ability of light to reset the internal clock has improved the lives of many shift workers. Monica L. Stemmle '96 was involved in shift work research during the summer of 1994. "I participated in a five-year study on whether properly timed bright light could improve shift workers' performance...