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...ball, allowing us to gain market share." The parent company is still headed by Howard Lutnick, who is the CEO of Cantor and chairman of a publicly traded subsidiary BGC Partners, which is 40% owned by Cantor. Lutnick was famously taking his son to his first day of kindergarten on September 11 and not in Cantor's offices when the World Trade Centers were attacked. Lutnick recently told analysts that he was optimistic for his company despite the uncertain markets, and that the evolving business models of Cantor's largest customers and competitors was an opportunity...
...Unfortunately, Harvard insists upon punishing 18- and 19-year-old cadets and midshipmen for a law signed into place before they were in kindergarten. But, while Harvard claims the moral high ground by keeping ROTC off campus, it has no ethical objections to associating itself with the federal government, which put the policy in place. In 2005, Harvard accepted federal funding equal to about 15 percent of the university’s operating budget...
...Cambridge Rindge and Latin. Nearly three-quarters of the budget—74.5 percent—is allocated to expenditures in schools, roughly the same proportion as last year. The budget would preserve small elementary class size and keep the student teacher ratio at about 18:1. Three new kindergarten classrooms were also included in the budget, as projected kindergarten enrollment in the coming academic year is projected to rise almost 7 percent to 800 children. According to James Maloney, the chief operating officer for the Cambridge Public Schools, these classrooms may be in the Tobin School, the Morse School...
...What struck Pagani most was how predictable the identities of the gamblers were. When she referred back to the ratings from kindergarten, she found that every one-unit increase on the impulsivity scale correlated with a 25% jump in the likelihood a child would be gambling by sixth grade. "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual already refers to gambling specifically as an impulse-control disorder," she says, citing the official text that outlines diagnostic criteria for mental disorders. "And then there were our findings showing that...
...executive functions - and what Pagani and others call "effortful control" - are just developing. The better the brain can be trained at this stage, the better it performs later in life. Pagani cites a 2007 study published in the journal Science that showed that simple attention-boosting training taught in kindergarten improved focus and concentration in later years. "You can introduce a cost-effective program and reap enormous benefits," she says...