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This is why default options pack such power. Most of us will save for retirement, run our computers in energy-efficient mode and be organ donors if we have to take action to say no - but not if we have to take action to say yes. Almost nobody signed up for a German utility's clean-energy plan until it became the default, and then 94% stuck with it. We're also much likelier to go to the doctor for preventive care like flu shots if the appointment is made for us. In a speech last year, Orszag even suggested...
Antismoking advocates tout this month's record increase in the federal cigarette-tax rate, which on April 1 spiked from 39¢ to $1.01 per pack, as a move that will bolster the federal budget while saving an estimated 900,000 lives. Supporters say the measure will stop 2 million kids from lighting up and spur about 1 million adults to quit, but the sharp hike has some smokers fuming. Cigarette taxes, detractors argue, are a way for governments to line their coffers by legislating personal choice--and a prime example of a regressive "sin tax," the term often used...
Local smokers expressed mixed opinions about the federal tobacco tax increase that took effect yesterday. The tax, which increased the levy from $.39 per pack to $1.01 per pack, was approved earlier this year. For Massachusetts residents, this hike comes on top of the hefty $2.51 per pack state tax on cigarettes. Paul J. MacDonald, owner of Harvard Square tobacco shop Leavitt & Peirce, said that he was unhappy with the substantial tax increase. “We treat everybody like rockstars here [at Leavitt & Peirce.] And obviously the government feels the same way--they think that they have money like...
...Chimparty Pampered Primates in Jefferson County, Mo., Kayla, a three-month-old chimpanzee, sits dressed in human clothes in a baby’s crib. In the wild, she would live with her family in a pack and range over a 3,000- to 15,000-acre expanse of jungle. Here, she lives alone in a suburban bedroom, leaving only to perform tricks and entertain people...
...culminating in back-to-back Ivy League championships.With the start of the Ancient Eight fixtures only a week away, No. 68 Harvard (8-7) landed in the Golden State for its annual spring break tour. Four outdoor games and eight days later, as an injury-hampered Crimson shuffled its pack, the team left with one win and three straight losses, but overall winning contributions from 11 players. “The teams are good out here, so it meant that everyone was getting a chance to play someone they haven’t been playing back home...