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...they will miss either their own forecasts or those floating around on Wall St. traditionally tell the world that results will be worse than expected so investors can abandon their holdings a week or two earlier than they would if the company waited to put out results on its normal schedule. It is a perverse practice which is probably due to concerns by the SEC that a public corporation should not sit on really bad news any longer than possible. There have been very few warnings this quarter, which is some evidence that companies took what they believed...
...yesterday morning, nine subcontracted custodians tried to clock in for work at Harvard Medical School. Although their layoffs were effective last Friday, the custodians showed up for their normal shifts, ready to work, as part of staged protest.More than 25 Harvard undergraduates, law students, medical students, and union members escorted the workers through the back entrance to Gordon Hall where they were met by security and administrators who told the protestors that they had three to four minutes to exit the building.“We’re from American Cleaning, and we want to work...
...When the team scratched the leg without first creating an artificial itch, the STT neurons fired - the normal STT-neuron response - but scratching did nothing to calm them. That demonstrates that STT nerves react differently to the sensation of a scratch when it happens in response to an existing itch. The researchers then injected a pain-producing chemical into the monkeys' legs, which also spurred the firing of STT neurons. Again scratching did nothing to calm them, suggesting that the nerve-dampening effect of scratching applies uniquely to itching, not pain...
...Watson said. “She was injured all fall, and we are excited to have her back. She skippered well and hiked hard as crew, and it is great to have her back competing.”In the B division, freshman skipper Emily Lambert switched from her normal crew, as Cosgrove crewed the first two races, freshman crew Marie Appel the next four, and Jumper the final eight. Harvard finished ninth overall in this division, 13 points out of sixth place.Yale won the overall team title, totaling 119 points over the two-day affair.SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND TEAM RACEMost...
...Conlan points out that by continuing a campaign of low-level security threats, dissidents force police resources normally used to tackle fuel and cigarette smuggling and drug dealing - believed to be the main sources of income for dissident groups - to be diverted to anti-terrorism operations: "The [dissident] rationale is to prevent normal policing. Under normal policing, all the criminal activity they have become addicted to and dependent on would have to cease...