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What: This year, Leverett House takes you on its annual trip to the 80s—but sloooowly. Be sure to head over early to one of those vaguely punk/retro stores in the Garage, and find yourself some legwarmers and a headband. Have your prefrosh drape her sweater around her shoulders and you’ll be all set to ease your way back into the last few decades of incredible music...
...swarms. After this time limit, whoever remained must fight their way to the center of the courtyard where “rescue helicopters” would take them to safety. In order to survive, the humans must not be touched with two hands by any of the blood-red headband clad monsters...
They first recruited a group of nine healthy adults and presented each with a list of eight beverages, which they were asked to rate in appeal on a scale of 1 to 5. The investigators then outfitted each participant with a headband equipped with fiber-optic strands that projected infrared light through the scalp and skull and into the prefrontal cortex, a brain area critical for processing preference. Infrared imaging is typically used to detect heat, which is just what the researchers were looking for. The volunteers were shown pictures of different pairs of drinks from their original list...
...father asked me, 'Where on earth are you going in that?' " says Mayuka Watanabe, laughing. She is a 17-year-old high school student sporting a headband with a big ribbon and three pink roses. Her friend Miki Takahashi, 18, who takes her fashion inspiration from Cinderella, adds, "People look at me and sometimes even point a finger at me. Once a little kid on the train looked at me and exclaimed, 'Look, there is a fairy!' which was kind of embarrassing, but I didn't care because I just wear what I like." Sanae Nagamine, a 21-year...
...hard not to notice their disappointment. As the delegates' working groups presented their reports publicly, it quickly became clear that those supporting independence were still a small minority - about 20%, according to Thondop's own estimate. "People who speak for independence, there are not many," says Tsundu, whose red headband and fiery rhetoric has made him a minor celebrity among the activists here. He complained that the meeting itself was weighted toward the old guard, because most of the invitees were formally elected, not grass-roots leaders. "There is a huge discrepancy in the way the meeting was called...