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...students need to move beyond the instruction provided at the Law School to create change in the real world and “to not assuage anxiety but meet it head-on,” he said...
...interview with TIME, Saif did not criticize his father, to whom he is close. Yet he offered a head-on challenge to Libya's conservatives, who resist calls for democratic change. "They are idiots," he says, waving his hand as though to dismiss them. When asked what kinds of new political freedoms he wants for Libya - such as freedom of speech, or privately owned media - Saif replied without hesitating: "Everything - a level of freedom like in Holland." That would be a stunning departure from his father's 40-year rule, in which the country has carved a far different path...
...goal is to prohibit head games. "The No. 1 thing: take the purposeful helmet hit out of football, for both blocking and tackling," says Dr. Robert Cantu, one of the country's premier concussion experts and a co-founder of Sports Legacy Institute. That goes for running backs as well. Too often, they make a conscious decision to lower their head into a defender, hoping the forward lean will give them an extra yard. That defender's natural reaction? Go head-on as well. What if running backs weren't allowed to intentionally lead headfirst? The NFL is at least...
...ETFs - ones that are actively managed. Firms ranging from Invesco to Pimco have launched about 12 of these funds over the past two years; others, such as T. Rowe Price Group and John Hancock Funds, are preparing to roll out similar funds, all in an effort to go head-on against actively managed mutual funds. "It's clearly a category that's attracting more interest among ETF providers and mutual-fund companies," says Standard & Poor's Tom Graves. "It combines the characteristics of a passive, index-based ETF with that of an actively managed mutual fund." (See pictures...
...That reduced shoot-down window means the interceptor will have to work more quickly to do its job. "Whenever we have a situation where we're taking on a missile more head-on than from the side, that increases the challenges," Army Lieut. General Patrick O'Reilly, the U.S. missile-defense chief, told a defense gathering sponsored by Reuters on Monday. The test is expected to send an interceptor missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at a fake Iranian missile, fired from the Marshall Islands. (Read "A Brief History of Missile Defense...