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Because the VIX is supposed to predict near-term volatility, the VIX calculation only considers options expiring in the next two months. The VIX is measuring "very near-term fear." While many investors look to the VIX as an indicator of a bottom to the market, it does not possess much long-term significance...
...spring schedule.With a fall season beginning at the start of the school year in early September and a spring portion finishing in early June, both the co-ed and women’s teams are faced with a rather long competition schedule. The Harvard sailors must possess great endurance in competing virtually every weekend throughout the spring, and just as the closing miles of a 26.2 mile course often prove the most crucial, the Crimson competes in its most important regattas near the end of its spring regimen. The Harvard co-ed sailing team always nears...
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have discovered that adult humans do in fact possess a type of beneficial fat—previously thought to only be present in babies, young children, and other small mammals—that burns calories instead of storing them. The discovery was made simultaneously by three independent research teams in Boston, the Netherlands, Finland, and Sweden. Brown fat and its potentially crucial role in warding off obesity has since been the subject of three articles in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Unlike its counterpart white fat, a mere two ounces...
...certainly does not possess the extensive celebrity of past Commencement speakers, and his pairing with Class Day speaker Matt Lauer represents a lower-profile lineup than those to whom Harvard students have historically been accustomed. However, Chu’s lack of widespread name recognition in no way forestalls him from delivering an engaging and insightful address. An eloquent proponent of novel approaches to achieving America’s energy self-sufficiency, Chu will surely offer important insights into the progress of our national efforts and the role of Harvard students in bringing these efforts to fruition. The choice...
...given it to him, it would be a first.) A third-class relic is anything - anything at all - that has touched a first-class relic." As Manseau is quick to point out, such categorization often did more harm than good: "Seen charitably, this means that anyone could aspire to possess one. Seen cynically - and no less historically - the three-classes scheme meant that counterfeiting of the second and third class could be easily performed." (See pictures of spiritual healing around the world...