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...American women what disease they're most scared of, and the vast majority will answer without hesitation: breast cancer. They may even cite the ominous statistic that 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer at some point in her life. But what most women don't realize is that they actually have far more to fear from heart disease, which will strike 1 out of every 3. More than 500,000 women die in the U.S. each year of cardiovascular disease, making it, not breast cancer (40,000 deaths annually), their No. 1 killer...
...while the public scrutiny drawn to the plight of Harvard’s least-paid employees may have led to improvements in their dealings with the University, Harvard has yet to address many of their more substantive complaints. Workers cite University employment policies, which leave them without pay or unemployment insurance between school years. “The number one issue that we deal with today is the 3 month layoff during the summer,” says Ed Childs, chief steward for the Hotel Employees, Restaurant Employees (HERE) union. “During good times we can find some...
...cite one example: out of eight articles in the coursepack on Social Security, five are written by Feldstein or present favorable summaries of his position. Two are written by others in support of Feldstein. Of the eight, only one opposes Feldstein’s plan for privatizing social security, and even this article calls for a “balance” between private savings plans and Social Security, not better social insurance. While polls show strong skepticism among policymakers and the public about Social Security privatization, Ec 10 acts as though the debate has already been settled in favor...
...Radcliffe rowers cite the extra indoor training forced upon them by the long winter as contributing to their outstanding strength and conditioning so early in the season...
Letting the audience decide for itself is a major theme in PART’s stated mission—and McGregor and Cozzens both cite it as a reason why artistic protest can be more powerful than rallies. While protests can easily be ignored, they say, street theater impacts people differently. Not only do the actors provide entertainment, but, McGregor says, “they are informative but not necessarily obvious...