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...mean? Thanks to randomization, the Houses have been stripped of any sort of personality, and with that, any true sense of community or House pride. After all, there isn’t much substance to a “community” of people who have nothing in common except that they were all randomly placed in the same building. Imagine how much more fun and vibrant the House communities could be if they actually stood for something, as they did in the past—with the artsy kids in Adams, the jocks in Mather...
...women,” he said. Researchers monitored nearly 40,000 women for 10 years, comparing those given low doses of aspirin with those taking a placebo, according to the study. The study found that the risk of heart attack in women is largely unaffected by the drug, except in women over the age of 65, who experience both a reduction in the risk of strokes and of heart attacks. The risk of stroke, however, was 17 percent lower in women taking aspirin as opposed to those taking a placebo, the study said. Similarly, the risk due to blood clotting...
...narrow view,” said former Fuerza Latina president Diana C. Montoya-Fontalvo ’07. “Our membership isn’t only completely Latino. We have a good number of prominent members who don’t have a Latino connection at all, except an interest,” she said.RAINBOW COALITIONSThe growing number of ethnic organizations on campus increases the opportunities to form cross-ethnic coalitions among student groups.“Ethnic organizations, ours especially, really do work a lot with other ethnic organizations,” said the former Society...
...could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth, in such quantity as he might see fit, and reasonably expect their early delivery upon his doorstep." Not only that, Keynes' Londoner "regarded this state of affairs as normal, certain, and permanent, except in the direction of further improvement." It was not to be. World War I brought the modern world's first great era of globalization to a jarring halt; trade atrophied, and legislation like the Smoot-Hawley tariffs passed by the U.S. Congress in 1930 gave a legislative imprimatur to protectionist...
Even larger economic forces may play a role. "It seems to be inextricably bound up to ... stagnant wages in the global economy," Clinton told the Governors. "The price of everything has gone up except food. Food is still a good deal in America." Rates of childhood obesity are worst among the poor and are a particular challenge in immigrant communities--in part because there's no cheaper dose of assimilation than a trip to Burger King. The New York Times Magazine reported that a couple of years ago, after administrators trimmed fat and sugar from menus at schools...