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...hours a day,” she writes. “They are denied food and water. They have implants surgically implanted in their brains and eyes. They are forcibly addicted to drugs and alcohol and given fatal diseases. Animals have had their eyes sewn shut, their heads smashed in, and been burned, blinded, maimed, and starved...
...where students can kick back, chat with friends (possibly over a drink), enjoy some music, dance, and mingle. It’s another option for your social life—you can just pass through or spend the whole night there, as will likely happen when other parties are shut down for LSATs or MCATs. Yet Pub Night is only one night per weekend; a permanent pub in Loker would be an even more reliable social option for all Harvard undergrads, which is something that the College currently—and sorely—lacks...
...Bettinelli] did an incredible job,” said Shaughnessy. “She came in against a huge swinging team, and she shut them down after the first inning...
...classic fight-or-flight behavior paradigm was incomplete. Again and again, in shipwrecks as well as plane accidents, he saw examples of people doing nothing at all. He was even able to re-create the effect in his lab. He found that about 45% of people in his experiment shut down (that is, stopped moving or speaking for 30 sec. or often longer) when asked under pressure to perform unfamiliar but basic tasks. "They quit functioning. They just sat there," Johnson remembers. It seemed horribly maladaptive. How could so many people be hard-wired to do nothing in a crisis...
After the closely fought second game, the third frame was anticlimactic. The Nittany Lions’ defense—notching 11 team blocks, eight more than Harvard—shut down the Crimson attack, holding Harvard to a negative hitting percentage en route to a 30-15 clincher...