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...people congregate there,” says Dunster resident Aaron F. Alexander-Bloch ’06. As the stomping grounds for Cambridge high school students as well as teams of ornery 30 year-olds eager to prove themselves against the younger set, the players here all-too-often tend to feel that their manhood is at stake. Bloch recalls numerous occasions when he had to leave court to avoid a fight. “We’ve never had a good experience there. It always ends badly...
...Women are still disproportionately found in lower-ranked faculty positions, including non-tenure-track lecturer or unranked positions, that tend to pay lower salaries,” the report said...
...tend to assume that plane crashes--and most other catastrophes--are binary: you live or you die, and you have very little choice in the matter. But in all serious U.S. plane accidents from 1983 to 2000, just over half the passengers lived, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. And some survived because of their individual traits or behavior--human factors, as crash investigators put it. After the Tenerife catastrophe, aviation experts focused on those factors--and people like the Hecks--and decided that they were just as important as the design of the plane itself...
...important thing to keep in mind is that friendships do tend to ebb and flow. This reality doesn’t mean that you should lose all your remaining hope in the human race and your belief that real friendships last forever. But rather than trying to capture high school relationships in a bubble, you will appreciate those friendships more if you acknowledge that they will change. It is inescapable that different people will grow in different directions. Friendships are inherently evolutionary...
Pinker also noted that men and women tend to have different priorities in life; men seek status and money, while women look more for interpersonal relationships...