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...Elsevier’s managing director of journal publishing, Martin Tanke, said that Elsevier also launched PERK, a publishing ethics toolkit for journal editors, and a reference tool to strengthen the peer review process...
...Monday Germany reaffirmed its determination not to participate in France's plan for a Europe-wide bank bailout plan, modeled on the U.S.'s $700 billion effort. Without Germany's participation, no such plan can proceed. "The Chancellor and I reject a European shield," German Social Democrat Finance Minister Peer Steinbruck told German radio on Monday in reference to the plan, "because we as Germans do not want to pay into a big pot where we do not have control and where we do not know where German money might be used...
...need to know the facts about sexual health if they are to make well-informed lifestyle choices. Luckily for the Freshmen Dean’s Office (FDO), there is an easy way to bring factual, non-directive sexual health education into freshman dorms. The FDO—specifically, the Peer Advising Fellows should work with Harvard’s Peer Contraceptive Counselors (PCC) to plan sexual-health-education themed freshmen study breaks. PCC is a non-directive group that trains its members to know the truth about contraceptives, STIs, pregnancy and abortion, and mental health. Members...
...than men who become women (MTFs). MTFs in the study earned, on average, 32% less after they transitioned from male to female, even after the authors controlled for factors like education levels. FTMs earned an average of 1.5% more. The study was just published in the Berkeley Electronic Press' peer-reviewed Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy...
...example, were to abandon letter grading, it might be difficult for firms or graduate schools to know which students were qualified and which were not. Grades also provide a clear motivation to attend class, do the readings, and engage with the material. Yet at Harvard Law School and its peer institutions, the letter grading system provides far less in the way of usefulness. Any student capable of graduating from HLS has already demonstrated a high level of proficiency and drive simply by generating the grades and scores necessary to gain admission and completing the coursework while there. Law students...