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...large failed. Take, for example, Naomi Wolf, author of “The Beauty Myth.” The phrase describes the idealized standard of beauty whose realization is upheld in Western culture as the end-all task of being female. Yet, despite the myth’s devastating implications??self-loathing, eating disorders, bodily mutilation via plastic surgery—no woman wants to be patronized into giving up eyeliner and lipstick. Nor does she want to be told that her low-cut blouse shows that she’s been hoodwinked into a patriarchal conspiracy intended...
...Will there be cases where people over-relied on models? Absolutely,” he says. “But is that a general proposition? Not so clear.”In some situations, senior management may have failed to understand the models or may have ignored their implications??such as when they advise reducing profit to control risk, even when other companies are pressing forward.While backward-looking VaR models relied entirely on data from past years, forward-looking VaR models were able to pick up on the increased volatility of the market before securities prices took...
...incorporate student perspective as the University grapples with an unprecedented budget crisis. In the e-mail, Hammonds acknowledged the potential safety hazards that students had raised at the town hall meetings, but she also reaffirmed that the proposal came after a “thorough review of the safety implications??—a claim that both students and House officials saw as insufficient. According to Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith, slashing late-night shuttle services was one of the budget cuts that College administrators did not “flag?...
...neuroeconomics is not fully defined,” said Yale Neurobiology Professor Daeyeol Lee at the beginning of his presentation on the similarity between human and monkey decision making paradigms. Laibson cautioned against applying preliminary findings of the developing field—which at present may have primarily microeconomic implications??to the current recession, but maintained that “unambiguously, the current crisis has extraordinarily rich psychological origins.” The event was co-sponsored by the Harvard Society for Mind, Brain, and Behavior and the Harvard Undergraduate Economics Association. Sophie R. Wharton...
...better insulin sensitivity. Kahn had found that not all fat is created equal: subcutaneous fat from the lower body, it turns out, is very different from abdominal fat. What the difference is, exactly, has yet to be discovered. That kind of finding would have “enormous implications?? for the understanding of obesity and diabetes and for the pharmaceutical industry, said Philip Gorden, the former director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Those who aren’t fortunate enough to be callipygian, however, can’t do much...