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Among the various ethnic groups, Southern rural African-Americans ran the largest deficit in life expectancy due to these health issues, according to the study, which was published in PloS Medicine...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Risk Factors Affect Life Expectancy Disparities, HSPH Researchers Say | 4/9/2010 | See Source »

...earlier version of the April 9 post "Alum to Run Over 100 Miles For a Good Cause" incorrectly stated that Pheidippides made his famous marathon in 546 BC. In fact, according to tradition, he ran...

Author: By Catherine E. Coppinger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alum to Run Over 100 Miles For a Good Cause | 4/9/2010 | See Source »

...ran a drug unit; I prosecuted multiple murder cases,” he said. “All of that taught me how important it is for government to be competent and very progressive...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe and Julie M Zauzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Meet the Democratic Candidates For the State Senate Seat | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...find out, a Harvard economist named Roland Fryer Jr. did something education researchers almost never do: he ran a randomized experiment in hundreds of classrooms in multiple cities. He used mostly private money to pay 18,000 kids a total of $6.3 million and brought in a team of researchers to help him analyze the effects. He got death threats, but he carried on. The results, which he shared exclusively with TIME, represent the largest study of financial incentives in the classroom - and one of the more rigorous studies ever on anything in education policy. (See Roland Fryer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Kids Be Bribed to Do Well in School? | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...experiment ran in four cities: Chicago, Dallas, Washington and New York. Each city had its own unique model of incentives, to see which would work best. Some kids were paid for good test scores, others for not fighting with one another. The results are fascinating and surprising. They remind us that kids, like grownups, are not puppets. They don't always respond the way we expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Kids Be Bribed to Do Well in School? | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

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