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...also focus on tailoring programs to better reflect the local culture. For example, in rural India, where income is determined by crop and animal breeding cycles, researchers are studying “how much flexibility microfinance clients can handle over loan payments that doesn’t increase the likelihood of default,” said assistant professor of economics Erica Field, who also spoke yesterday. “They presented economic research not in a boring back-room sort of way but in a really active way and having an international component,” said Rohan Kekre...
...likelihood, Hamas, now in control of most of the Palestinian parliament, will remain passively loyal to its 22nd clause, which calls for the destruction of Israel. Nonetheless, it will not embrace terrorism as its foreign policy and will remain generally calm and in a state of hudnah (truce), both with the Fatah opposition and with Israel. The future is in Israel’s hands; it is Israel’s responsibility not to panic now as it stands at a crucial crossroads prior to the March Israeli elections...
...team's findings, just published in a paper in the British Journal of Psychiatry, have far-reaching implications, argues co-author Philip Mitchell, convenor of Brain Sciences UNSW, which encompasses staff from the University of New South Wales and affiliated institutes. By helping to predict the likelihood and timing of depressive episodes, Mitchell says, "this gives us the potential for true prevention of depression." Any move into prevention, however, raises issues that the authors of the paper have only begun to grapple with...
...When asked about the likelihood that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, Schauer was skeptical...
...become increasingly obvious that the trouble we upperclassmen warned of—about forming blocking groups—has not been so greatly exaggerated as they thought. The unnatural requirement of selecting your seven “best” friends out of a group that, in all likelihood, far exceeds that number, leads to all sorts of plots, plans, and alliances, turning previously normal people into caricatures of their former selves. A few of the personalities that surface during the arrangement of blocking groups include...