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...what cost will that transformation be reached? What will happen to the neighborhood if higher rents force out lower-income residents and smaller-scale businesses? Kowalcky claims that the city understands these concerns. She says that the city will work with Harvard to mitigate these effects by making sure “that housing targeted at a range of income levels accommodating the community, not just Harvard affiliates, gets built...
...faculty developed by COACHE that has been used at other universities, like Dartmouth, to measure job satisfaction through opinions about teaching loads, leave policies, research support, and work-life policies in order to measure job satisfaction. A detailed analysis of the questionnaire will be released later this summer.Harvard ranked lower than peer institutions on most counts, says Mansbridge, who adds the result is hardly surprising given that the University only grants tenure at the senior level following the publication of at least two books.But Professor of the Practice of Romance Languages and Literatures Kimberlee Campbell says the focus on tenure...
...field, women aren’t just matching men—they’re beating them. Goldin and Katz attribute this to the fact that boys are more likely than girls to have behavioral problems.The much higher rate of disciplinary and behavior problems for males and the far lower amount of time they spend on homework can explain almost the entire female advantage in college attendance for the high school class of 1992, adjusting for family background, test scores, and high-school achievement, according to Goldin and Katz’s research.One year after University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...MARGARINE can be just as harmful as butter, if not worse; a process that stiffens vegetable oil into a butter-like stick also transforms it into an artery blocker. In general, the softer the margarine, the better. New butter substitutes, such as Benecol, can lower blood cholesterol...
Another factor, doctors believe, is that exercise holds down blood pressure. When the heart pumps blood more quickly through the body, vessels dilate--or widen--to accommodate the extra flow. The overall effect is to lower pressure throughout the cardiovascular system. People who get regular exercise have about a 30% lower risk of developing heart-threatening hypertension than people...