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...terrible news for nerds, since it implies that in the end, even if they go on to invent software or write Lost episodes or produce great books, the bullies and jocks will win in a far more primal way: they spread their genes to more little bullies and jocks. Call it the ultimate victory of Attila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Type A Personalities Have the Edge in Procreating | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...recent op-ed called “Harvard as Big Pharma,” published on Mar. 1, outlined good reasons for Harvard’s involvement with private pharmaceutical companies. It demonstrated a vital engagement with the national conversation about the best means to ensure global access—particularly in the developing world—to the fruits of medical research performed within the academic community. This was accompanied by a call to deliver essential medicines to the developing world at a symposium held at Harvard Law School this week. Harvard should maintain momentum in its quest...

Author: By Isaac T. Kohlberg | Title: Advanced Global Access | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...situation in which some countries are making extraordinary efforts and other countries aren't, with the hope that somehow the countries that are making those important steps lift everybody up," Obama said last week, in a prime-time press conference. But so far, European leaders have resisted the call for more stimulus. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she does not want to be bogged down by "artificial discussions" of fiscal stimulus, and like many of her peers would prefer to focus on fashioning a new regulatory structure to make sure the excesses and abuses that precipitated the crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama in Europe: Facing Four Big Challenges | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...rightly so. The huge systemic risks associated with hedge funds and other unregulated firms in the financial system have a ruinous potential in our economy. Yet these bodies have been allowed to operate with a minimal level of oversight for years. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s call for an expansion of financial regulation and increased transparency faces a long struggle through Congress but will prove a crucial framework for promoting future economic stability. Mangers at hedge funds and other unregulated market players are often reluctant to open their bets to scrutiny or reveal their positions in the market...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The End of Under-Sight | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...have $8,000." But for people who do still have a choice, you're seeing a willingness to scrimp and save for themselves before they demote their animals. Over the last generation a lot of people have promoted their pets to the status of honorary child -they call them "Fur babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do We Love Our Dogs More than People? | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

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