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...Mixed' is a word that pops up often in financial research reports these days. The measures that give us hints about which way the economy and markets are headed - everything from the number of people out of work to how difficult it is for companies to fund themselves are pointing in every which direction. As a new Bank of America-Merrill Lynch report puts it: 'The [stock market] indicators are fairly evenly divided between positive and negative readings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Outlook for Stocks Is Decidedly...Mixed | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

After slashing two-thirds of its publicly traded stock holdings in the fourth quarter of last year, Harvard has substantially reshuffled its equity investments and expanded its emerging and foreign markets portfolio, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission disclosure report released last week.Though the disclosed assets represent only a small fraction of the University’s total holdings, the report provides a glimpse of how Harvard Management Company—the group that oversees the University’s multi-billion dollar endowment—is navigating this year’s tumultuous and markedly changed financial landscape...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMC Reshuffles Equity Investments | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

Rosenthal says he doubts the Mexican tests and wants to have the Perote pigs examined by his own experts. Having Smithfield report on the tests "is like the fox guarding the henhouse," he says. If the case goes forward, Trunnell will be suing Smithfield for up to $1 billion, which would include punitive damages, and Rosenthal indicates that he would be open to launching a class action on behalf of other H1N1 victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: H1N1 Virus: The First Legal Action Targets a Pig Farm | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...veteran American news-wire reporters were making their umpteenth papal trips. Victor Simpson of the Associated Press took his first in 1979; Phil Pullella of Reuters made his maiden voyage in 1982. We won't report who gave which mark, but one gave a B "'cause he made the trip in the first place," the other a C-plus "for missed opportunities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grading Pope Benedict's Mideast Pilgrimage | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...such pledges were significantly less likely to use condoms or other forms of birth control. The science, then, is clear. Abstinence-only education is useless at best and counterproductive at worst. What’s more, abstinence-only programs tend to spread misinformation and sexist stereotypes. According to a report prepared by the House Committee on Government Reform, abstinence-only curricula have claimed that HIV can be spread through tears, that abortion causes sterility, and that condoms fail to stop HIV transmission in 31 percent of cases. None of these claims, of course, is true. The report goes...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Abstaining from Ignorance | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

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