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...when people allow current conditions to dictate perceptions of the past and the future. A person who is currently hungry overestimates how hungry he will be in the future, and therefore overbuys at the grocery store. On a full stomach, presentism results in the opposite effect...
...year after the deadliest shooting in America, when a sad and angry English major killed 32 people and himself at the Blacksburg campus of Virginia Tech, only modest changes have been made to the country's gun control laws. These days it appears that the most lasting effect of mass-casualty shootings is to harden people's pre-existing opinions on emotionally loaded issues like gun control and privacy rights...
...median age of viewers was 47. Furthermore, studies have shown little correlation between beer advertising and overall alcohol consumption—instead, such advertising typically changes the brand or type of alcohol people consume. It would be an overreaction to censor beer advertising because of its purported effect on such a small fraction of the audience. Though it is probable that reducing the amount of beer advertising could have some, albeit minimal, effect on underage drinking, as a professional sports organization, the NCAA does and should have other considerations, such as making ad revenue, when making programming decisions...
...external source of funding can be found within the next year, the exam will be continued for another three-year period, she added. Classics Department Chair John M. Duffy said he did not think the cancellation of the AP Latin Literature exam would have much of an effect on students choosing to concentrate in the Classics at Harvard. He said that students could still be placed into Latin classes based on the AP Latin: Vergil exam and could study the authors who would have been covered in AP Latin Literature during their time at Harvard. “We can?...
...Ekaterina Kosminskaya and Julia Koulbitskaya, ranked No. 27 in the nation, evened up the score at No. 1 with an 8-1 win over Schnitter and junior Laura Peterzan. The Quakers then clinched the doubles point with a victory at No. 3. “Penn had an overwhelming effect in singles but in doubles we were very close,” Green said. —Staff writer Jake I Fisher can be reached at jifisher@fas.harvard.edu...