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...They've picked the right place to stress-test budget lodging concepts. The average cost of a London hotel room is $234 a night, making the city one of the priciest in the world. Beecham says it was his personal experiences as a consumer - specifically, his distaste for what he calls "rip-off" charges for things like phone calls and movies - that inspired him to go into the business. He built a traditional hotel, but lowered costs by making careful choices in siting and design. Rooms at the Hoxton are all 20 sq m in size, roughly 20% smaller than...
Cohen Kadosh took five volunteers with normal math abilities through more than 500 trials. In an experiment published this month in Current Biology, he targeted different regions of the test subjects' brains with magnetic pulses while they performed number-recognition problems. A normal subject, when asked to identify whether a 2 or a 4 is written in larger text, will be a split-second faster on those occasions that the 4 is printed bigger. Normal subjects process that 4 is a bigger quantity than 2, and that information aids their pick - just as number recognition slows them down slightly when...
...orderly, fair election in Nigeria would give a mighty fillip to the democratic project in Africa. The transfer of power from one elected President to another would also be a first for Nigeria. If all goes well, an important test will have been passed, an important example set. But already there is widespread fraud and violence, and if the result is contested by substantial numbers of voters, the turmoil will affect the whole continent. Nigeria is not just its most populated country, it is the big brother of West Africa...
...time off for Passover. No time off for Easter. My friends at Yeshiva and Georgetown are laughing at me from home. Dear gyroball: I’m going to throw you so often! Love, Daisuke dear my professor i don’t mind if you give a test this late but can you not call it a midterm? the middle of the term was last exam. thanks. Dear FM: Why haven’t you printed one of my hollers? My crotch is still on fire, and that bitch is still out there. Everytime you talk more than once...
...students and canines. “You don’t have to worry about them much. You can leave them out in the Yard and they’ll still find food and go to the bathroom just fine.” Hosts probably shouldn’t test that theory. Despite the friendly exuberance and wagging tails of eager prefrosh, Asian Americans had more admitted students and fewer hosts than any other minority group. What’s up with that? “There’s just a diffusion of responsibility,” says Asian...