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...Recent years have not been without organized efforts at improvement. In 2008, the Student-Parents Organization and a group of students led by Kyle M. Brown, then-president of Harvard’s Graduate Student Council, assembled a survey and a set of recommendations concerning parental accommodation that they presented to Harvard administrators. Only mixed success has followed. GSAS has helped reinforce an official but sometimes unheeded policy allowing students who have a child during school an extra year to finish their dissertations. The pilot grant program for Harvard childcare also emerged from the group’s earlier lobbying...
Forget the free-will model of morality you learned in “Justice” lectures. If a recent scientific study is correct, you might be able to sway your entire section to your line of thinking using one simple object: a magnet. But how could a physical object alter our most fundamental beliefs...
Andrew J. Breitbart, an editor at the Drudge Report who was a guest at IOP Fellow Ernest Istook’s study group yesterday, questioned the recent allegations of racism in the Tea Party movement...
...Saharan Africa, tuberculosis rates actually increased between 1990 and 2007 according to a recent report from the United Nations, despite the goal of halving tuberculosis cases and deaths by 2015. Contamination and polluted water kill more people than all forms of violence combined, and one million people still die each year from malaria, the majority of them children and pregnant women in Africa. Their suffering remains invisible to us an ocean away. Concentrated in the world’s poorest villages and away from the eyes of the developed world, they die silent deaths...
...recent years, hundreds of schools have made these transactions more businesslike, experimenting with paying kids with cold, hard cash for showing up or getting good grades or, in at least one case, going another day without getting pregnant. (See pictures of kids comparing their paychecks at school...