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After meeting on Monday with healthcare industry professionals, President Obama met on Tuesday with business leaders to explore innovative ways to contain healthcare costs. The attendees included the CEOs of Johnson & Johnson, Safeway Stores and Pitney Bowes, and the director of benefits for Microsoft, among others...
...exercise. Last week, the HRC concluded its poll of Harvard undergraduates with an impressive 1,700 responses, 62% of which favored official recognition of ROTC at the College. Yet the HRC’s claim that the poll shows “strong support for official recognition of ROTC among Harvard students” is dubious at best. A substantial self-selection bias and a low response rate show that this poll can tell us very little about opinions towards ROTC on campus. The discussion it has provoked, however, is a sign of the issue’s importance...
...never been known as a “cool” house, so when its HoCo tossed aside plans for an ultra-fancy formal at the top of Boston’s Prudential Center in favor of a standard in-house affair, you can understand why some (FlyBy among them) thought it would be business as usual in everyone’s favorite pit stop on the way to fun in Mather...
...World Health Organization, the number of people infected worldwide stands, as of Monday morning, at 4,694, of which 95 cases have occurred in Spain. And some evidence seems to point to a factory pig farm in La Gloria, Mexico, as a possible source for the virus. But among the scientists, producers, regulators and distributors who had gathered in Aracena, just down the road from Jabugo, to network and listen to scientists discussing the latest innovations in pig breeding and ham raising, no one was willing to admit concern about what the future might hold for their prized product...
...Most of those arrested remain in detention as Belgian authorities continue investigating the case of what they described at the time as a looming suicide bomb plot by the group. According to police, several members of the group were known to have traveled to and from Pakistan and Afghanistan. Among those arrested in the raid and still detained is Malika El Aroud, 48, a Belgian national known for her blogging calls to fellow Muslims to take up jihad and the widow of Abdessater Dahmane, one of two Tunisian nationals recruited by Belgian extremist networks to assassinate Afghanistan's key anti...