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...landmark Grolier Poetry Bookshop on Plympton, a former hangout for poets like E. E. Cummings ’15, T. S. Eliot ’10 and Allen Ginsberg and one of only two for-profit poetry-only stores in the country, would have to spend money changing all of their mailing labels and packaging, and it may at first lose customers who have trouble finding the street with a different name. It could be enough to put the struggling bookstore, which was sold in 2006 after losing money for two years, out of business...
...students’ blueprint will in the future be copied for hospitals in Haiti and other rural areas. Beyond this, the Design School students also want to help make humanitarianism a bigger part of the architectural field. They have established their own non-profit organization, called Model of Architecture Serving Society, which connects aspiring architects to projects like this hospital...
...scientific journal, 17 London traders, aged 18 to 38, donated saliva samples over an eight-day period. Each time they did - once at 11 am, and again at 4 pm, book-ending the bulk of each day's transactions - the traders, dealing mostly in futures, recorded their current profit-and-loss standing. (They were also quizzed to make sure that nothing they'd eaten or talked about outside of their work was acting on their hormone levels...
...Taking the average of just two daily samples makes it tricky to untangle the impact that a higher than average testosterone level has on that day's profit and loss - or vice versa. More telling, though, is the correlation between a higher morning testosterone level and the pumped-up profits recorded later the same day. Traders scored elevated testosterone on different days, scratching out any chance that blanket market changes were at work on the entire group's profits (and hormones). The traders' levels of cortisol, meanwhile, a hormone affecting their response to challenge or stress that was measured using...
CLARIFICATION: The April 10 news story, "Student Entrepreneurs Get Lift, Prize Money" did not include the names of both of the creators of UniThrive. The non-profit peer-to-peer lending organization was created by Nimay K. Mehta ’09 and Joshua Kushner...