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...federal assistance, but too low for them to live comfortably in Cambridge, which has some of the highest real-estate prices in the country. Davis and other councillors pointed out that while the number of housing units has steadily increased in the past 50 years, each unit accommodates fewer people. And with the demise of rent control in 1994, inflation-adjusted rents have increased substantially. Councillors said they were surprised by other changes in the city’s demographics, such as the fact that it is becoming more racially diverse. “I think these trends are really...
...hand than those in the U.S. or Europe, Clapham says this may actually prove advantageous for budding researchers.“I learned a lot from working in an Argentinian lab as opposed to a North American lab,” Clapham says. “They have many fewer resources than Harvard has, so I had to be more creative.”From the moment her plane touched down, Clapham was exposed to the unique Argentinian milieu. When she extended her hand to greet her post-doctoral lab partner, he replied...
...Potter's study reinforces previous studies' findings about the importance of keeping brain circuits active, it is the first to tie it to the subjects' baseline intellectual ability. In other studies, researchers could never be sure, for instance, that people who remained intellectually active and therefore suffered fewer cases of dementia, didn't have some sort of brain reserve, or start out with a higher level of cognitive ability that served as a buffer during their declining years...
...Mainland businesspeople are hurt, too. At Shenzhen's Luohu Commercial City-the mega mall that's a magnet for tourists seeking a bargain, and where Salim aimed to go-shopkeepers say fewer foreign customers are showing up. "Before, we were so busy. We're not selling much anymore; by 5 or 6 p.m., we're just playing cards," says Lin Ming, a clothing shop owner whose sales have dropped by 50% in the last month...
...conclusions of these studies were "all over the place," says McPhedran. But by pulling back and looking purely at the statistics, the answer "is there in black and white," she says. "The hypothesis that the removal of a large number of firearms owned by civilians [would lead to fewer gun-related deaths] is not borne out by the evidence...