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...study, if she ate seafood while pregnant, your IQ might have increased.Last week, a team of researchers led by a professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS) published a scientific paper stating that mothers who eat seafood during pregnancy have smarter children.The study, published in the October issue of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives, is a new wrinkle in the debate over the safety of fish consumption for pregnant women.Currently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends that pregnant women limit their seafood intake to two servings per week.FDA guidelines say that some types of fish, such as shark...
...where North Koreans are churning out watches, shoes and kitchenware in newly built South Korean-owned factories. After a two-hour drive, the bus stops on a bridge in the middle of nowhere. No industrial park here, just a few farmers. This is it, our guide informs us. We peer into the distance at a hazy outline of blue factory sheds shimmering like a mirage on the horizon. "You see that building over there under the mountain?" asks our guide. Can we get any closer? No, comes the curt reply, "that area is banned from others...
...lunatic," I asked. Of course, he doesn't speak English, and I don't speak Farsi. The interpreter was between us, and he looked at me like I was a nut case. He puts the question to him, and I must say, for the first time he began to peer at me. Who is this who is asking this question? He predicted not much of a future [for Sadat...
Over the next decade, peer schools like Princeton, Stanford, and Cornell set up women’s centers, giving their students spaces where they could coordinate feminist events, hold meetings for a wide variety of groups, and share information about women’s resources on campus...
...matched donations to eight charities up to $100 per person. All Harvard schools took in displaced students from Loyola and Tulane universities, with the College eventually accepting 36 undergraduates. When compared to the responses of other schools, Harvard’s generosity outpaces almost every one. None of our peer Ivy institutions matched donations for the tsunami, and only Yale did so for Katrina. President Summers should continue to utilize the University’s unique resources to aid disaster victims in whatever ways possible. But matching donations for the tsunami and for Katrina have set a dangerous precedent?...