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The Big Apple continues its 10-year run as the city in which people say they’d most like to live, but Boston and Dallas are on the rise. Noticeably absent from the list: Los Angeles, Miami and D.C. The Huffington Post counts them down. Happy to put October’s freak snowstorm behind them, students took advantage of the unseasonably warm weather Tuesday to take a break between classes — and between trees. The Quad is a favorite spot for the sport of slacklining. [portfolio_slideshow]  Decisions are ideally the result of rational and intentional reasoning, but for many, the process instead is one clouded by any number of conscious and unconscious influences.
Farnam Street has assembled a primer of sorts on decision making and curates steps to reaching the optimal decision.  Experts predict a rocky year ahead, and more to follow, as increasing population and global consumption stir poverty and unrest. The big picture is further complicated by increased severity and frequency of catastrophic weather events, which may affect grain harvests, analysts warn.
 Bowdoin Webmaster Mark Leaman is feeling a little snowed under at the moment. And he couldn’t be happier.
Leaman, who helps keep Bowdoin’s Web services up and running by day, is spending his evenings madly assembling a tabletop game he invented called Cabin Fever, which he sells as a sideline business. Continue reading Bowdoin Webmaster Is On His Game  If you have to tell someone you were only joking, they probably didn’t get the joke. Might be best to recognize this and other passive aggressive phrases commonly in use.
The classic New York accent isn’t as prevalent as it once was, and with some seeing it as a hindrance in an era of globalization, it may become endangered as so-called “New York accent reduction specialists” find their services increasingly in demand. 
Harvard University Library Director Robert Darnton makes the case for developing a national digital library, citing Thomas Jefferson’s stated vision that: “Knowledge is the common property of mankind.” | Bowdoin Athletics 2/3/2012 Women's Track & Field at 1st/4 Maine State Meet (Bates) | Recap 2/4/2012 Nordic Skiing at Vermont Carnival (Trapp Family Lodge) 2/4/2012 Women's Swimming & Diving at Colby 2/4/2012 Men's Swimming & Diving at Colby 2/4/2012 Men's Track & Field at Maine State Meet (Bates) 2/4/2012 Women's Squash Bowdoin at Bates 2/4/2012 Men's Ice Hockey Bowdoin at Hamilton Video2/4/2012 Men's Squash Wesleyan (Conn.) at Bowdoin 2/5/2012 Nordic Skiing at Vermont Carnival (Trapp Family Lodge) 2/10/2012 Nordic Skiing at Dartmouth Carnival (Oak Hill) 2/10/2012 Women's Squash Bates at Bowdoin 2/10/2012 Women's Ice Hockey Bowdoin at Hamilton Video |
