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...grim situation for employees and their families by outsourcing. Harvard’s outsourced janitors are employed through cleaning companies that manage their workers’ hours and wages. Outsourced workers do not receive the same benefits as direct employees. Direct employees can receive childcare allowances and short-term disability leave if, for example, they need to care for a newborn. Outsourced workers are not eligible for this benefit. An outsourced worker who takes a three-month leave to have a baby will not be compensated.Some outsourced workers do not receive healthcare benefits at all. Recently, Harvard hired Andrades Cleaning...
...self-reported high blood pressure. The study, published last Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found a “modest inverse U-shaped relation” between coffee consumption and hypertension after controlling for other factors such as diet and smoking. While not disputing the short-term increase in blood pressure and stress hormones found by other studies, one of the authors of the report, Dr. Gary C. Curhan, suggests people who drink a large amount of coffee develop some sort of resistance over time. The study backs up a similar investigation by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg...
...company would shore up its profit margins once sales of the Razr start to slow. At the end of the meeting, an exasperated Zander started venting to an attendee about the evils of short-term thinking on Wall Street. "I work for shareholders," he said in an interview in his Schaumburg, Ill., office three weeks later. "But, that said, are you a long-term shareholder or a short-term shareholder? There seems to be more and more of a focus on short-term results, which makes investing for the longer term that much harder...
DYSON: You can't limit your concern to short-term economic impact. This attitude closes off inquiry. It creates an approach to science that I think is dangerous...
...haircuts and clothing. There is, of course, the danger that they will be ridiculed for having previously lived on Hooker Street until their mommies altered its name on their behalf. Closer empirical analysis reveals, however, that homeowners are wealthy enough to buy their children stuff that will ease the short-term pain caused by such accusations...