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...light of the investment losses suffered by the nation’s wealthiest universities this past year, schools with large endowments should adopt more conservative investment strategies, Tufts University President Lawrence S. Bacow said in an interview with Bloomberg News last week...
...Even the country's best-known blue movie director, christened Lindsay Honey, a name many porn stars would kill for, chose instead to adopt the comedy moniker Ben Dover. There's an innocence about such humor, as if Britons have been permanently stuck in adolescence since the Victorian era. But adolescence isn't the slow awakening it used to be, as Britain's soaring rates of teen sex and pregnancy indicate. The annual British Social Attitudes surveys chart a steady liberalization of British views on sex, with a majority of the public now finding nothing wrong with sex before marriage...
...would all depend on the way the local town would adopt this legislation,” said Nathan T. Pham, policy director for the office of Senator Hart. “If no city and town adopts the legislation, then it won’t have any impact...
Congress mandates that Medicare cover annual mammograms for its beneficiaries, but if private insurers adopt the task force's policies, then many women may soon find themselves at odds with their doctors, who may continue to advise annual screenings even if patients have to pay for them out of pocket. "That would be a step backward, taking away an option from women and denying them the choice," says Dr. Mary Daly, chairperson of the department of clinical genetics at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia...
...recommends that the system—the largest at any university in the world—adopt a twenty-first century approach that focuses on greater collaboration with other institutions of higher learning and shift toward more digital purchases, rather than traditional print resources...