Word: sevens
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Prasse-Freeman, who is 12th in the nation in assists per game, struggled with a six to seven assist-to-turnover ratio...
...Seven scantily clad gentlemen with "BRADLEY" painted across their chests served to remind the audience that this game was not only between the two basketball teams, but also symbolically between Princeton alum Bill Bradley and Harvard alum Al Gore...
...comeback fell short though, as Princeton guard Ahmed El-Nokali victimized the Harvard defense for seven points in the final five minutes...
...into smaller pieces makes them easier to remember. The process is called "chunking," and that's why we can remember Social Security and telephone numbers. Large unbroken sets of numbers, such as driver's licenses, can be artificially divided into chunks for easier recall. "Clustering" is another effective technique. Seven, according to experts, is the magic number for short-term, or working, memory. That's roughly how many things we can consciously hold in the mind at one time. But we can trick it into holding more by inventing seven or so main categories and then grouping several things under...
...chest. Richard Burgoyne shot himself at his home in 1993--his wife and two sons, ages 8 and 11, found his body in their living room. Estimates of Lloyd's-related suicides range from a dozen to more than 30. The gentlemen at Lloyd's acknowledge only seven...