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...requirements was as important as the 1.8 billion bbl. of oil and 900 million metric tons of greenhouse gases the rules are expected to save. "In the past, an agreement such as this would have been considered impossible," he said. "What everyone here believes, even as views differ on many important issues, is that the status quo is no longer acceptable...
...While the Play Golf Designs pros won't actually wear high heels as they shoot a round with your clients, don't expect khakis and a cardigan. The fashion tastes of each woman differ, but a few have indeed dressed on the course like spring-break barmaids. To Sadekar, the attire is part of the attraction, and everyone just needs to lighten up. "Look at what the women's tennis players get to wear," she says. "Unfortunately, as golfers we get shafted. Khakis just aren't cool...
...voluntarily retire if they have worked at Harvard for at least 10 years. Herschbach is a longtime administrator who became the College’s dean for administration last year. She said she will assist in finding her successor, but noted that the responsibilities of her replacement would probably differ from her own, stressing the new relevance of finance in administrative duties. “The whole portfolio has to be reshaped around that very prominent element,” Herschbach said. Herschbach began working at Harvard in 1981 as the Master of Currier House. Since then, she has served...
...teens’ sexual behavior. One, commissioned by Congress and conducted by Mathematica Policy Research over the course of nine years, found that students receiving abstinence-only education had sex no later than those who did not. The number of sexual partners and use of contraception did not differ between the groups either. Another study, from Johns Hopkins, found that students who take virginity pledges—a key part of many abstinence-only curricula—were no less likely to have premarital sex than those who do not. More frighteningly, the Johns Hopkins study also found that students...
...senior Senators on the Armed Services Committee beg to differ. Democrat Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have written to President Obama, urging him to fight the release. "We know that many terrorists captured in Iraq have told American interrogators that one of the reasons they decided to join the violent jihadist war against America was what they saw on al-Qaeda videos of abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib," the pair wrote Obama May 6. "The release of these old photographs of past behavior that has now been clearly prohibited can serve no public...