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...premature is fraught with complications: in addition to their underdeveloped lungs and digestive systems, which make breathing and blood-sugar regulation difficult, many preemies also suffer long-term consequences in brain development. But researchers report that there may be a way to make up for some of that cognitive deficit: taking an over-the-counter supplement...
Actually, the deficit is on track to hit $1.2 trillion this year, but what's $200 billion among friends...
...next move on to more formal manipulations. When trying to comprehend a trillion-dollar deficit, you might calculate how much money that represents per person in the U.S. One trillion dollars divided by 300 million Americans comes out to $3,333. Then you search for a useful comparison. A convenient - though perhaps unsettling - comparison is to the amount of credit-card debt carried by the average person in this country. That figure is $3,245. "So a good way of thinking about government debt financing is that it's similar to what the average person is doing," says Camerer...
...Green beat Harvard in the league opener in Cambridge and began the dogfight that begins at the season’s tipoff and often runs until the final buzzer. Dartmouth led by as many as 10 points in the second half before the Crimson whittled the deficit down to three with 12 seconds to play...
...comeback in the middle frame. Holding a one man advantage at the beginning of the period, Harvard picked up some momentum on a power play. Three minutes later, Fraser ripped one past Bulldog goalie Billy Blasé to put the Crimson on the board and narrow the point deficit to 3-1.But as soon as things seemed to be going Harvard’s way, an untimely high sticking penalty turned the game back over to Yale, as the Bulldogs knocked another one in on the power play, putting them ahead, 4-1.“As soon as we seem...