Word: persons
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...draws the occasional disdainful look from those involved in Harvard theater, and a look of blank incomprehension from the general student population. Given the clear correlation between a theater's name and its prestige, can we blame Carr for offering up the choice reward of $1,000 to the person who suggests the best name for the new theater? After all, that paltry $1,000 could decide more about the theater's fate than the millions already invested...
...recent report on National Public Radio presented scientific evidence proving that the brain learns less effectively when a person has had too little sleep. This is something that, deep down, we all know; but we suppress the knowledge, and pride ourselves on scraping by in a state of sleep-deprivation. But every Harvard student, and every member of the Harvard faculty, should pause to consider the implications: as members of a scholarly community it is our business to learn, all the time; but if we know how we could learn better...
...healthy person can survive the occasional short night with no ill-effects. But let's be clear about the consequences of systematically depriving ourselves of sufficient sleep. It is not only our capacity to concentrate and absorb information that suffers. So do our inter-personal relationships, since tired people tolerate one another less easily. We run the risk of permanent disruption in our sleep patterns, i.e. chronic insomnia. We put ourselves under sustained and cumulative stress that can lead to physical and psychological collapse. If we drive in a state of exhaustion, we may pose a danger to others equal...
...like the way he approaches problems," she says. "His approach is, what can he do for the person, not for the problems of the world...
...very well-honed executive skills," Armstrong says. "He is a thoroughly cultivated person and very sensible...