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...significant inverse association between coffee drinking and heart attacks, however. Among coffee drinkers in the United States, the average consumption is 3.1 cups of coffee per day, according to statistics published by the National Institute of Health. The high amount of caffeine in coffee leads to a temporary rise in blood pressure, causing many to question the health effects of the popular beverage, and other controlled studies have shown an increased risk of coronary heart disease associated with coffee consumption. Although the results of the experiment revealed that higher levels of coffee consumption are not associated with an increase...
...last year’s at Brown, when he shot 8-of-10 from three-point range and finished with 30 points. But Goffredo faced significantly amplified pressure down the stretch, and did not hit again from the floor, misfiring on the final six shots he took. ON THE RISE Friday night was another impressive exhibit in the season-long display of Brown guard Mark McAndrew’s multiple basketball talents. The 6’2 junior from Barrington, R.I., is looking like the Ivy League’s most improved player this year, and he bolstered that notion...
Drew Gilpin Faust’s rise to the Harvard presidency has come under fire from the National Association of Scholars (NAS), which expressed concern this week over the Radcliffe dean’s “strong feminist bent” and the manner in which she would make personnel decisions. Stephen H. Balch, president and founder of the Washington-based group, said that he feared that Faust would push to use gender and perhaps racial criteria in hiring and tenure decisions. “The greatest worry”, Balch said in a statement...
...supposed rise of inequality in contemporary America is overblown. As argued by Tyler Cowen, an economics professor at George Mason University, much of it can be attributed to demographic trends. Simply put, as populations get older, they tend to display higher variation in income. Most of the rest of the increase in inequality is a result of increasing returns on education and skill. In other words, to raise wages, activists would be better off with neo-Luddite machine sabotage than with unions, because structural factors in the economy—globalization and technological change—are responsible for unequal...
...sophomore forward Jenny Brine recorded two scores and added an assist of her own. Yale has been clicking lately, however, and is undefeated in its last five contests. Perennial cellar dwellers in the ECAC until as recently as three or four years ago, Yale is a program on the rise, a fact not lost on Chu.“In the last couple years they’ve come on to be strong competitors,” she said. “Any time we get a chance to play them we know we have to play our best hockey...