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...There have been a number of estimates as to the financial effects of a pandemic. Some range as high as a 5% drop in global GDP. The calculations that would go into an exercise to come up with a reasonable guess would require more work than the entire length of the recession would allow. But, a pandemic is a long shot for several reasons. The most obvious reason is that healthcare and disease monitoring are much more sophisticated now than they were just six years ago at the beginning of the SARS epidemic, which turned out fortunately...
...tighter lending standards. Loans owned or guaranteed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac qualify; the two government-sponsored entities cover more than half of mortgages in the U.S. In the first three weeks of the program, Freddie Mac closed about 1,000 of these refinances, though "that's a drop in the bucket compared to what's expected," says Patricia McClung, a Freddie Mac vice president in charge of new products for single-family homes. "The lenders are still putting this in place." (Read a brief history of Fannie Mae and Freddie...
...usually hires 90-100 high school students to serve as junior counselors in its camps. BYF funds about $56,000 in salary for these counselors, according to Gray, and losing that funding would possibly force the program to drop roughly half of its junior counselor staff...
...just useful for the midterm, and when we budget our class time we give up on this basic intellectual ideal. The nuances that get cut with an economic approach to class time are what make the Harvard academic experience more than four years of test prep. When we drop them, we drop learning for its own sake, that clichéed goal that we laud but clearly do not internalize as we fail the simple laptop-lecture attention test...
...Street—swarms of party-goers celebrated Earth Week, picking up fliers, sampling food, and mingling with representatives from various local organizations. Square restaurants had booths set up, as did the Charles River Conservancy and Green Streets, a grassroots organization that promotes environmentally-friendly transportation. Visitors could also drop off unwanted computers, monitors, and cell phones for recycling at RE/MAX Destiny’s office around the street as part of the organization’s eco-wise realtor program. Zipcar—the car-sharing service founded in Cambridge—was on-site as well, offering...