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...letter, first posted on the web journal of Harvard commentator Richard Bradley, did not state how long the leave will last or whether O’Brien will resume her post as deputy dean when she returns...
...collect your SSN. But they too use it far more than necessary--to let you access accounts over the phone or online, for instance. Some banks use just the last four digits. "It's not totally safe, but it's safer," says Robert Ellis Smith, publisher of Privacy Journal. He suggests calling the bank and requesting a different password altogether...
That is one of the reasons there was so much interest in a study that appeared last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (J.A.M.A.) about the health effects of carrying around all those extra pounds. Researchers looked at health data from more than 90,000 older women--some of normal weight, some obese and some morbidly obese. They found over the course of the seven-year study that for white women, being obese rather than of normal weight was linked to a 12% greater risk of dying. Women who were at least 100 lbs. overweight, however...
...himself. "If I could calculate as rapidly as you," he wrote, "in my equations the electron would have to capitulate and the hydrogen atom would have to produce its note of apology about why it does not radiate." Yet one day later, Hilbert sent a paper to a scientific journal with his own version of the equations for general relativity. The title he picked for his piece was not a modest one. "The Foundations of Physics," he called...
...former CEO Jeffrey Skilling, says his client was saddened and shaken by Lay's death. "Jeff will miss him dearly," said Petrocelli. Skilling has already lost another close friend to the Enron debacle - vice president Cliff Baxter, who committed suicide in 2002. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal last month, Skilling admitted he had considered suicide himself. Petrocelli refused to comment on the status of Lay's case. "It's inappropriate to be thinking or talking about that right now," Petrocelli told TIME. Petrocelli is continuing to work on Skilling's appeal, "to right what was a very...