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...with their bankrolls. They’ll swing $500 in a day to feel the adrenaline, lose the rush the week after, and bump it to $1000, looking to find the thrill again. For one Harvard undergrad who usually plays a couple hours of online poker a day, his approach to the game differs substantially from that of a professional. Upon the encouragement of his roommate, an experienced player, the individual began playing online his freshman fall and soon found the game “addicting.” The most he’s won in a sitting...
...change students’ indifferent attitudes toward it through new legislation calling the formation of the UC-House Committee liaison program. Starting this year, representatives from the UC will be required to be present at their respective house’s weekly HoCo meetings. We welcome this new approach and hope the UC takes full advantage...
...unclear what political ends the Obama administration is hoping to achieve with this confrontational approach to Fox. This is a news channel that thrives on controversy, and its anchors glut on polemics. Its audience seems captive to the lies of Glenn Beck and co., but they appear unlikely to trust the words of any politician, even the most charismatic one. Furthermore, the White House will hardly be viewed as an objective arbiter of the truth if it continues to level such retaliations in the wake of the national imbroglio that is the health-care “debate...
...TIME's request for a statement. Alvarez was quoted by the Chicago Tribune on Oct. 20 as calling the students "investigators" instead of reporters. And Alvarez's chief of staff, Dan Kirk, is quoted as saying the purpose of the subpoena is to ensure that students did not approach the case with a bias and that grades in the class weren't tied to the results of the investigation. Kirk said this could undermine the information's legitimacy in the event of a retrial. Lavine calls the notion "insulting." "The prosecutor's job is not to cast stones against...
...similar approach work with biotechnology drugs, which were not dealt with in the 1984 law because the industry was then in its infancy? A 2008 analysis by former Clinton Administration official Robert Shapiro, who has consulted for both biologics companies and their would-be generic competitors, suggested that generic versions of the top 12 categories of biologics whose patents have expired or will expire soon could save Americans up to $108 billion in the first 10 years and as much as $378 billion over two decades. "It's the low-hanging fruit," says Mark Merritt, head of the Pharmaceutical Care...