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...report, titled “Educational Endowments and the Financial Crisis: Social Costs and Systemic Risks in the Shadow Banking System” states that university endowments that engaged in high-risk investments “played a role in magnifying certain systemic risks in the capital markets...
...policies allowed insurance companies to discontinue coverage for sick patients. Some plans even capped the amount companies would pay for your medical expenses. Two weeks ago, these practices were effectively brought to an end. Under this bill, even adults with pre-existing conditions will be eligible to join a high-risk coverage pool funded by the government. Considering that 45,000 Americans die every year because they lack affordable health care, it is hard to overstate the significance of this bill for millions of families across this country. This bill will quite literally save lives...
There was just one obstacle in the path to making it official: my mom, in all of her hormonal and high-risk pregnancy bliss, mandated that I be named after her-much-beloved-Aunt-but-not-actually-an-aunt Henrietta, whom I never had the opportunity to meet to verify that claim. My father would have preferred to keep the extant name for simplicity and, well, pragmatic reasons. My parents decided to compromise and use both names, but call me by my middle name. (For the record, “Bratton” is my mom’s last...
...influential people in the world in 2007 and in 2009, has garnered acclaim as a leader in field of stem cell research. This year, he co-taught the introductory course in the newly-created Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology concentration. O’Keefe, his wife, works to improve high-risk students’ access to quality education as part of the Education Collaborative for Greater Boston...
...educational consultant Gail O’Keefe will lead Eliot House. Honored multiple times by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, Melton is considered to be a pioneer in his field. O'Keefe works to improve access to quality education for high-risk youth in the Boston area...