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...Kaupthing, Landsbanki and Glitnir - continued to exploit their then strong currency and cheap credit to buy banks in Denmark, Norway and the U.K., as well as British retailers like House of Fraser and Moss Bros. They amassed foreign assets equivalent to 800% of the nation's GDP, the highest ratio of any country in the world. Meanwhile, their dependence on global capital markets to fund this shopping spree left the banks vulnerable to the whims of investors. By early 2008, the combination of a risk-averse global financial climate and possible speculative attacks on the krona meant that Iceland could...
...America's kids have stopped getting heavier. And even though the CDC data comes from an authoritative source - the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), which has been ongoing since the 1960s - calculating childhood overweight rates is an inexact science. NHANES tracks kids' body mass index (BMI), a ratio of height to weight commonly used to approximate whether a child should be classified as overweight. But BMI is far from perfect - different ethnic groups tend to carry weight differently, and the ill effects of excess body weight can arise at different BMI levels. The statistic doesn't measure...
History professor Charles S. Maier ’60 noted the disparity between high concentrator to faculty ratios for undergraduates in the social sciences relative to other disciplines. Maier said that the concentrator to faculty ratio in the social sciences was nearly 10:1 while the ratio for the humanities was closer...
Smith said yes, but Susan R. Suleiman, a literature professor, said that the concentrator to faculty ratio was “not a genuine picture of what we do and the number of students we teach,” as social science concentrators often take classes in the humanities as well...
...Smith said yes, but Susan R. Suleiman, a literature professor, said that the concentrator to faculty ratio was "not a genuine picture of what we do and the number of students we teach," as social science concentrators often take classes in the humanities as well...