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...Researchers at the Guttmacher Institute, a research nonprofit that focuses on reproductive health, surveyed 947 women between the ages of 18 and 34 who have household incomes under $75,000. More than 4 in 10 said the economy was affecting their decision about having children. The women reported waiting to get pregnant later than they had planned, deciding to have fewer children or opting for medical sterilization to prevent future pregnancies. A majority of the women surveyed (52%) said their financial situation had worsened in the past year, and they were most likely to make their family-planning decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recession Fallout: Fewer Women Having Kids | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

...press release announcing Elkins’ tenure. Elkins collected much of the information contained in the book from oral histories of Kenyan survivors of British detention camps in the 1950s and wrote the book during a yearlong stay at the Radcliffe Institute between 2003 and 2004. Her research interests include “colonial violence and post-conflict reconciliation in Africa, and violence and the decline of the British Empire,” according to her history department Web site. Elkins is currently teaching both Historical Study A-21: “Africa and Africans: The Making of a Continent...

Author: By Emily M. Boggs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: African History Professor Awarded Tenure | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

...finance professors. According to Coates, the brief agrees with Seventh Circuit Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook’s ruling that the court should not be involved in determining the compensation of investment advisors. Coates said he was motivated in part to contribute to the amicus brief because his research on competition in the mutual fund industry had been incorporated into several earlier briefings in the case. “I didn’t think the research I had worked on was presented fairly in the other briefs,” Coates said. “I wanted...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Profs. Sign Amicus Brief | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

...Fellows Program. “They need time, opportunity, and space to really do their thing, and they know far better than anybody else how to do it.” For Huybers, whose work in climatology earned him the Fellowship, the award is an opportunity to further his research. “I want to better understand how the climate works,” he wrote in an e-mailed statement to The Crimson. “For example, I’ve tried to figure out what caused the alternations between glacial and inter-glacial climates over...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MacArthur Program Names ’09 Recipients | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...American. “Healthcare doesn’t follow neat ideologies,” Robertson said, noting that he participated in the panel because he feels that some aspects of the debate are being ignored. Organized by The Petrie-Flom Center at HLS, which is dedicated to interdisciplinary research on health law, bioethics, and biotechnology, the open panel was meant to be accessible to both the Harvard and Cambridge communities. The event was mainly attended by HLS academic fellows and professors employed by the University. Among their slew of proposed reforms, the panelists emphasized increased coverage for more Americans...

Author: By Rachna Raina, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panelists Discuss Finances of Healthcare | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

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