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...What makes this one so persuasive is that it factors in such things as economic background, family upbringing and even, in the case of identical twins, genetic makeup. "We actually were expecting that by using twins, we'd find that the association between early use and later abuse would disappear," says Michael Lynskey, a visiting psychiatry professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and the study's lead author...
Sadly, the culture of shopping will likely disappear by the end of its proposed three-to-five year test run. When the last of this year’s first-years graduate, the institutional memory of shopping period will go with them—and students will not even remember the days that Harvard was unique in its freedom to sample classes...
...must not let this tunnel fall by the wayside as the Dig continues. He must find and implement a system to raise revenue for the upkeep and maintenance of the tunnel. Without such a system, the roadway will fall into disrepair, and the admirable benefits of the tunnel will disappear...
...fourth quarter). It also provides the 68.3 percent of American households which own their home (also a new record, according to the Census Bureau) with a sense that there's somewhere they can put their money without some analyst, CEO or Middle Eastern despot making it disappear. Most significantly, consumer spending is 66 percent of GDP, and the purchase of a new home tends to have an "umbrella effect" on the homeowner's spending as he heads back out to stock it with a washer/dryer, a new big-screen TV, and maybe a swing set for the yard...
...last week when the journal Science published a paper revealing that the unloved hammerhead, as well as many other species of shark, is vanishing faster than we imagined. If the beleaguered predators--consumed as delicacies, hunted as trophies and inadvertently caught by fishing fleets seeking other game--should ever disappear entirely, the world's oceans could be in serious trouble...