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...developing diabetes can bring their blood sugar down to normal levels without medication, by changing their diet and becoming more physically active. In the U.S. trial, patients who made these changes reduced their risk of developing diabetes nearly 60%. Hopefully the rest of the world won't just pick up our bad habits but learn from our good examples as well...
...Moore professor of biological anthropology, introduced Wobber to research that found that dogs respond better to human signals than chimpanzees do. For instance, if chimpanzees see a human pointing to one of two bowls and are asked to select which bowl is more likely to have food, chimpanzees pick the wrong bowl as often as the correct one, Wrangham said. However, dogs who were involved in the same experiment were more accurate, he added. Wobber became interested in what factor was responsible for differences in each species’ cognitive ability and why some species are better at reading human...
...past its deadline. Some people I’ve talked to share a handful of my symptoms. Minor accomplishments, say, the completion of a particularly clause-rich sentence, seem to merit, according to the dominant irrational side of my mind, an entire hour’s worth of distractions. (Pick your poison: mp3 or avi.) Constant underestimation of how long a given paper will take has led to my foolhardy belief that any paper can be tackled in 24 hours. Mentally prepared to stay up all night, I only begin real work around a bleary-eyed three a.m. Perhaps some...
...heads down,” said junior co-captain Sarah Cebron. “But starting off stronger would have built more confidence.” The Crimson returned home to take on perennial bottom-feeder Columbia—perhaps its best opportunity of the season to pick up a league victory. Harvard stormed out of the gates, winning games one and two. But Columbia recovered to win in five games, shocking the Crimson. “When it came down to the line, we didn’t play well,” Mahon said...
...scoring for Harvard.The Crimson outshot opponents by a 515-432 margin, thanks in large part to junior faceoff-specialist John Henry Flood’s .545 win percentage at midfield.“It’s just my job to go out there and just try to pick up the ball,” Flood said after his game against the Big Green, downplaying a performance in which he controlled 25 of 30 faceoffs.But what can’t be downplayed are the season’s dramatic moments, the most unforgettable being what is arguably the most memorable...