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...have had some bearing. “It never hurts to find a recognizable name,” said Leighton W. Klein, a Web journalist at the Kennedy School’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. “It never hurts to cite a University that represents authority and knowledge.” Payack said that Harvard has been successful in branding itself as a University: “all the different schools seem to be telling the same story.” “In branding, what you want is that...
EDITORS NOTE: This post was intended as an adaptation of an article originally published in the Harbus, the student newspaper of Harvard Business School. However, the initial post did not make the source of the idea clear or cite the Harbus prominently enough. FlyBy regrets the error. Please check out the original Harbus article here...
Body armor can be highly effective when worn properly; some analysts cite its use as standard equipment for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan as reasons why troop fatalities in those conflicts have remained at historically low levels (even as a larger proportion of soldiers return home injured or maimed by wounds that previously would have killed them). But the same evolution that has likely saved thousands of lives is now raising the question of whether tighter regulation would save even more. When laws vary so widely from place to place and the civilian purchase of body armor becomes more...
...Stress is thought to have a significant impact on the ability of the locus coeruleus to regulate noradrenaline properly, and Mehler and Purpura cite an improbable 2008 study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders showing that mothers who lived through a hurricane during their pregnancy - particularly at the mid-gestational point - had a greater likelihood of giving birth to an autistic child than other women. "What would be involved here would be the mother's level of [the stress hormone] cortisol," says Purpura. "Between fetus and mother, the placenta acts as a very good barrier for maternal...
...first third of the book, the authors cite convincing studies that quantify the benefits of two working parents: to children, husbands and wives. (There's even a 2006 study that found that husbands who do more chores at home fare better in the marital bedroom...