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...which oversees the common currency in the 15-nation Euro zone, slashed its main lending rate three quarters of a percentage point to 2.5%, following two half percentage point cuts in October. Since credit markets are all but locked up in the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September, the ECB has ratcheted down its main lending rate by a total of 1.75 percentage points. (Read " Will Europe's Bank Bailout Plan Really Work...
...maxim holds true: too much of anything is bad for you. Common Sense Media, a nonprofit advocacy group, and researchers from the National Institutes of Health, Yale University and California Pacific Medical Center have published a report that draws links between media consumption and children's health. After reviewing 173 studies in various categories, the researchers found that the more TV, movies, music and technology a child is exposed to, the higher the health risks they face. TIME spoke with Stanford University professor James Steyer, founder of Common Sense Media, about how parents can keep their kids on the media...
...faced today with the question of how a University seeking to invigorate the experience of its undergraduates builds on the noble experiment of Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell and adapts it for the 21st century. How do we connect enhancements in our curriculum to improvements in campus common spaces, and link those to a renewal of the Houses that our students call home...
...paper, President-elect Barack Obama's choice for United Nations ambassador has much in common with another boundary-breaking, African-American, Stanford-affiliated, female foreign policy expert with the same surname. But the similarities with Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice end there. Susan Rice brings to the U.N. job a career devotion to African affairs and eight years of experience in the Clinton administration...
...vocal and vociferous crowd. They called for an inchoate assortment of things: the heads of bungling politicians, the end of taxes, the bombing of Pakistan. Similar rallies took place in all of India's major cities, echoing solidarity and outrage. "We're all Mumbaikars now," was a common refrain on both posters and lips...