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...speculative bubble in housing reached its peak in the summer of 2006. As of last December, house prices were down 10.2% from that peak, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller National Home Price Index, and are still falling. Defaults are way up, and with the collateral behind even formerly sound home loans losing value by the day, defaults will surely keep rising...
...prevent disease,” Faust said in her Senate testimony on Tuesday morning. The additional funding represents an 8.4 percent increase over this year’s budget—well above inflation for biomedical research, which was 3.9 percent last year, according to a federal government index. Though the amendment passed the Senate 95-4, it faces a number of procedural hurdles before becoming law. Similar efforts have failed in the past, and Kevin Casey, Harvard’s associate vice president for government, community, and public affairs, said that despite the “strong support?...
Researchers looked at patient measurements typically used to assess heart disease risk: age, systolic blood pressure, smoking status, total cholesterol, diabetes status and any hypertension treatment. They found that they could substitute body mass index (or BMI, a ratio of height to weight), a noninvasive measure, for the lab-based blood test for cholesterol and still accurately predict patients' five-year cardiovascular disease risk...
Lucy Caldwell is mistaken to imply that rigorous academic standards and successful athletic teams are mutually exclusive. In the same March 2 New York Times article cited by Caldwell, Athletic Director Robert L. Scalise says he expects Harvard to maintain the best Academic Index in Ivy League men’s basketball despite Tommy Amaker’s new recruits. Harvard’s mission is best served by striving for excellence while still satisfying the constraint that its athletic teams have the best academic credentials within their sport. Ivy rules additionally ensure that the mean Academic Index of Harvard?...
...reach these conclusions, the authors said they poured over numbers from the Department of Defense, the Brookings Institution Iraq Index, and the Iraq Body Count to determine an accurate estimate of casualties. They then combined that information with automated mentions of resolve-undermining statements as well as major polls to measure public opinion...