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...dawn of human history, and Homo sapiens steps out from his cave to watch the rising sun paint the horizon. Suddenly he hears a rustling in the forest. His muscles tense, his heart pounds, his breath comes rapidly as he locks eyes with a saber-toothed tiger. Should he fight or run for his life? He reaches down, picks up a sharp rock and hurls it. The animal snarls but disappears into the trees. The man feels his body go limp, his breathing ease. He returns to his darkened den to rest...
...saber-toothed tiger is long gone, but the modern jungle is no less perilous. The sense of panic over a deadline, a tight plane connection, a reckless driver on one's tail are the new beasts that can set the heart racing, the teeth on edge, the sweat streaming. These responses may have served our ancestors well; that extra burst of adrenaline got their muscles primed, their attention focused and their nerves ready for a sudden "fight or flight." But try doing either one in today's traffic jams or boardrooms. "The fight-or-flight emergency response...
After the chairman and managing editor of the Princeton campus humor magazine. The Tiger, were removed by the publication's graduate board two months ago in the wake of a controversial feature, the magazine seemed as good as dead...
...March 9, chairman Richard Hersching was expelled from the magazine because of an article lampooning Brooke Shields, who will attend Princeton next fall. Tiger graduates found the issue, which raised a storm of controversy on campus, in poor taste one of the issue's articles was titled "How to Sleep with Brook...
This weekend in Ithaca, N.Y. the Crimson thinclads repeated their winter performances, with the men unseating the defending champion Princeton while the Crimson women were runners-up to their Tiger counterparts. Despite the second place finish, Harvard's Jenny Stricker, who won the 1500 with a time of 4.33,17 and the 3000 with a meet and track record of 9:32:89, was named the women's outstanding performer, a distinction the had also earned in the indoor version...