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...from the room and asked to perform a task that had nothing to do with the actual study. Those students were brought back in five minutes later and instructed to rejoin a group; some were placed on their original team, others on the rival team. In both cases, the rest of the group had already begun working and the returnee had to be brought up to speed quickly. When the work was done, the subjects filled out questionnaires about how they felt the sessions had gone. The results were striking. (See pictures of Steve Jobs...
...same house or included a member of a rival house - the passage of just five minutes was sufficient to establish a unique response among the three full-time members, which the latecomer did not share. Those who found themselves disagreeing with the late returnee reported feeling closer to the rest of the group, with whom they had formed a closer bond; those who agreed with the odd member felt alienated from the rest of the group. But that wasn't necessarily...
...victories, Harvard can breathe a bit easier after getting a foothold in the league standings.“Once you get going, everything gets a lot easier,” Rogers said. “Getting two [wins] in a row today…sets the tone for the rest of our Ivy League season.”HARVARD 15, PENN 11Down 11-10 in the ninth, sophomore Sean O’Hara came to the plate with the bases loaded and one out, looking to deliver a sweep for the Crimson. The shortstop got the job done...
...just back of the Eagles 13-2 mark.“We won most of our races off the starting line,” Watson said. “We had some really close races with BC and I think we have started a rivalry with them for the rest of this season and for the coming seasons.”Three women’s boats represented the Crimson in the regatta. Skipper Watson teamed up with sophomore crew Meghan Wareham to lead Harvard, while junior skipper Liz Powers and freshman crew Alexandra Jumper also formed a duo over...
...previous generations. The year 1991 also had a particularly low birth rate, which makes a huge peacetime draft even more of a challenge. The young men are also entering employment and working age - and families in the middle of Russia's economic crisis, which is sharper than the rest of the world's, may not be so willing to give up their potential breadwinners. (Soldiers are paid a minimal and "symbolic" amount for service to their country, the equivalent of about $10 a month.) Moskovsky Komsomolets, a daily newspaper in the Russian capital, reports that 45,000 Muscovites...