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...richest citizens has been growing since the 1980s. Social divisions have proved remarkably resilient, and British kids born into poverty - as many as one in three, according to the Children's Society - still start life at a serious disadvantage. Britons "continue to believe that poor people just need a kick up the backside to break out of poverty," says Reitemeier. And while skin color doesn't determine social class, darker-skinned Britons are likely to be less well off than their paler counterparts. Around 40% of people from ethnic minorities are poor - twice the rate for white Britons...
...week ending January 26, 2008, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 200 points after the Federal Reserve's interest rate cuts failed to kick-start the economy, the surge in searches for "recession" increased two-fold over searches for the term in the prior weeks of 2008. But as with searches for "gas prices" and "foreclosures," our concerns over the news was ephemeral. By the following week, those same searches decreased...
...Krahel: This University will try and squelch dissent. As somebody who was involved in the hunger strike, I know. They tried to kick us out of Harvard for doing the hunger strike. When it comes down to it, the administration and faculty in those times [during the Vietnam War] were vehemently opposed, and explicitly so, to anti-war activism. This created an opposition. On a lot of campuses, police, things like that were brought in. This was one of them. And they beat students. Students that were otherwise depoliticized saw that. That exploded campuses across the nation, including ours. Students...
...move highly consistent with the mission of the school and a strong step forward in promoting better health among the doctors of tomorrow. The ban, which was announced by HMS Dean Jeffery S. Flier last Monday, is not only going to encourage students, faculty, and staff to kick their habits, but will also minimize the impact of second-hand smoking on non-smokers. And while most patients don’t normally take smoking breaks with their physicians, the hypocrisy of a smoker imparting health advice certainly does damage to the doctor-patient relationship. Beyond the merits...
...it’s more about the discipline to stay out of the box.”Five minutes later, Harvard broke through with a hard-fought goal of its own. Jostling with a Bobcats defender for the puck next to the right post, senior Dave Watters managed to kick it out to freshman Pier-Olivier Michaud in the slot, who delivered a wrister to Fisher’s left side to bring the Crimson to within one. It was Michaud’s fourth goal of the season.Following another rebound goal from Quinnipiac, Harvard received a golden opportunity...