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...challenge of playing the SEC team was clear to Durwood.“It’s a much faster pace of the game,” Durwood said. “We dug harder hit balls and played against bigger blockers. We’re playing at a higher level, I think. When we get back to our conference, we’ll be able to maintain that high level.” Excluding the final frame, in which South Carolina landed 16 kills while committing only one error, the two teams put forth similar offensive clips?...

Author: By Emmett Kistler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Struggles In Texas Road Trip | 9/13/2009 | See Source »

Traditionally, the VIX has been described as a "fear index": the higher the index, the greater the pessimism as investors fear market instability. Technically, it is a barometer of implied volatility over the next month, specifically calculated from options prices over the S&P 500's underlying stocks. Bearish put options, the right to sell a stock at a specified price in the future, generally dominate a high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stock Volatility Is Down. But Is That Good News? | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

Since stocks are pushing higher, the VIX has obviously come down partially as a result of an easing of fear among investors. But these investors have not forgotten their fear, and it could easily escalate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stock Volatility Is Down. But Is That Good News? | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

After Harvard’s last capital campaign, which raised a record-breaking $2.6 billion ($3.4 billion in today’s dollars)—then the largest in the history of higher education—the University had intended to gear up for another campaign in 2006 or 2007. But the 2006 resignation of then-University President Lawrence H. Summers effectively put those plans on hold...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Fundraising Total Falls Eight Percent | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...fact that “self-harm behaviors” such as substance abuse and cutting are increasingly correlated with eating disorders shows that “people are under higher levels of stress and [are] not getting help for what they’re needing,” Armstrong said...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu | Title: The Skinny on Drunkorexia | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

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