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...what's the next move for ritzy retailers? Department stores cut new merchandise orders for the upcoming holiday season by at least 20% to bring supply in line with demand, and began pressuring fashion houses to offer lower-priced goods. "They needed to get traffic into their stores," says Milton Pedraza, chief executive of the Luxury Institute...
...that still doesn't answer the question of what mechanism might be at work. The authors offer a few hypotheses. For instance, stress may somehow stimulate the growth of nerve fibers near sebaceous glands, which in turn contributes to the increased production of sebum - the fatty substance that combines with cell debris and dead skin cells to form those familiar blackheads and pustules. (All together now: Eww.) That theory is unproved, but previous research on the effects of depression and acne drugs suggests the authors may be onto something: we know, for example, that antidepressants can improve acne. We also...
Brian J. Bolduc ’10, a resident of Winthrop House, concentrates in economics. On alternate Tuesdays, he will offer readers a conservative viewpoint that is stubborn—not in a resistance to argument, but in an insistence on evidence...
...which was formed to promote the use of economics research in crafting public policy. “I want LEAP to be the place policy makers come to get evidence,” said Economics Professor Raj Chetty, who helped found the program as part of his tenure offer at Harvard in 2008. Funding has been allocated on the order of $1 million from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—a major contribution, considering the $77 million round of budget cuts this spring. And though it was promised pre-recession, Chetty said the FAS commitment has not changed...
...fighters, is what makes the Shi'ite political party popular not just in Lebanon but in the wider Arab world. Those traits were on display when Hizballah engineers and social-service workers fanned out immediately in the aftermath of the war with Israel in 2006 to assess damage and offer assistance to its supporters who had lost their homes and business. Months later, Nasrallah launched a reconstruction program called Waad, or "promise," to rebuild every destroyed home by the beginning...