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...benefits of breast-feeding are many and varied. Studies suggest that breast-fed kids are smarter, taller, thinner, healthier and less stressed than babies on bottles. Plus, breast-feeding helps moms bond with their babies and may even lower their blood pressure. So, is there anything breast milk can't do? Apparently, yes, according to a new study published Tuesday by BMJ Online: It doesn't offer infants much defense against asthma or allergies...
...difference between incidence of allergy - to dust mites, cats, pollen, grass and Alternaria, a common fungus - between the groups. In the breast-fed group, about 9% were allergic to pollen and Alternaria, 12% to cats and grass and 15% to dust mites. Absolute rates of all allergies were slightly lower in the control group, but the variations weren't statistically relevant...
...should not bail out a small segment of investors for their “greed and stupidity.” Harvard instructors including Warburg Professor of Economics Robert J. Barro and Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61 said they support a lower interest rate, even though such action can push up inflation. “The most important thing [the Fed] does is respond to major financial crises,” Barro said, “Inflation is OK right now, and the economy is weakening...I think he should lower...
This is tough medicine to swallow for a college student who might rank sloth well above adultery or theft on the scale of mortal sins. Summer, Harvard-style, has given up its childhood role as vacation; it has even shaken off its role at lower-strung colleges as interruption. It has become an individually-made replica of Harvard itself, as if we all grow so lonely of Cambridge’s stresses during our three months away that we must rebuild them wholesale by some facsimile. Summertime is so indistinguishable from the other nine months of our lives that...
...Virginia followed suit within the next few weeks. Yet the move was rejected by both Yale and Stanford, and was criticized in The New York Times by Stanford Provost John Etchemendy. Fitzsimmons has repeatedly said that one of the major goals of the move is to attract students from lower income brackets, as early admissions programs tend to “advantage the advantaged” who have access to guidance that might motivate them to apply early to a school. With the increased time available for recruiting high school students, the admissions office hopes to broaden the Harvard applicant...