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...would say there are potential harms of annual physicals. We are all - particularly in the United States - dealing with increasing health-care costs. If we're providing something that's not helpful, that leaves fewer resources for other, maybe more necessary, care. $7.8 billion is about how much the U.S. health care system spends on breast cancer in total - prevention, treatment, hospitalizations, chemotherapy, every surgery. And that's about as much money as we spend on preventive health examinations [each year...
Terror-Free Investing "Rules of disengagement" failed to illustrate that all divestment models are not necessarily "terror free" [May 26]. Despite hundreds of foreign companies' doing business with Iran yearly, Iran divestment bills passed by California and Florida targeted fewer than 30 energy firms. Furthermore, loopholes allowed their pension funds to continue holding these companies in other public portfolios. By contrast, terror-free investing is comprehensive and accounts for the financial well-being of pension funds. That is why terror-free models use prescreened investment products excluding all foreign firms doing nonhumanitarian business with Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria...
...Dunster House administrators declared that many rooms previously classified as doubles would be turned into singles, fewer freshmen would be admitted in the housing lottery, and more seniors would be able to enjoy “senior suites,” which include common rooms. The number of senior suites was also increased in Lowell House, in an effort to minimize the number of rooms that have been deemed unsafe because of how crowded they have been in the past...
...reality is not that we are asking for fewer huge parties,” McLoughlin said recently. “There can be the same frequency of parties as before, just spread out and funded differently...
...promoting or recruiting on the Harvard campus, the program’s participation rate in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines ROTC has dropped drastically. Whereas ten or fifteen years ago, it wasn’t uncommon for 80 students to participate in the program, today there are fewer than...