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...think there are two other factors I would include. One is a long-term view. [With] eBay, the potential for cheating was just enormous. What they did with their feedback system - where today buyers can rate sellers on how they behave - is that suddenly they brought sellers' behavior out into the open. So if you want to do business with a seller you can look at their feedback scores and decide, do I trust this person or not. So all of a sudden, it changed the dynamic: it eliminated the possibility of short-term cheating. If you cheated one person...
Despite the steps that Harvard takes to promote safe drinking, the number of students who have been brought in for alcohol-related issues is on the rise for the second year in a row, according to the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services...
...problem is, however helpful DAPA and AlcoholEDU might be, they will never been able to counteract the real culprit that facilitate binge drinking: Harvard’s amnesty policy. As stated in the Handbook for Students, if someone is brought into University Health Services because of alcohol related issues, he or she would not face disciplinary action from the school for consuming alcohol. No program condemning binge drinking can ever work without negative ramifications for doing so. It’s the principle of moral hazard: someone who is insulated from risk will behave differently than if they...
...people approach the process of transition in the same way, and some decide not to make medical changes at all. For many, finding a way to pay for medical treatment is a hindrance in their transition, but the increasing visibility of the transgender community in the United States has brought issues of discrimination, medical care, and compassion into the public...
Several Tea Partyers rejected the analogy, saying the crowded field attests to Perriello's flaws and the growing conviction that spendthrift politicians have brought the U.S. to the brink of ruin. But many hold both parties responsible. Several of the candidates griped about the local Republican leadership's decision to choose the party's nominee through a primary - which favors household names like Hurt - instead of a convention, which would level the playing field and curb costs. If Hurt is the nominee, says Feigel, the Tea Party Web designer, "I may stay home...