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Members of a nutrition advisory body debated the merits of various methods of presenting calories and serving sizes for dining cuisine at a meeting of the Committee on House Life yesterday. The possibility of installing an ATM in the Quad was also on the CHL’s agenda. The nutrition group—comprising Harvard University Dining Service officials, University Health Services dieticians, undergraduates from the Community Health Initiative and Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach, and House administrators—debuted a revised approach to providing nutritional information about dining hall cuisine. In an effort to accommodate students dealing...
...Hauser said. While the monkeys have been a source of controversy for animal activists, they provide a relatively rare research opportunity for Hauser’s lab, the only behavioral research lab at Harvard that uses monkeys. He said that with only 40 monkeys in residence, the sample size for his experiments is quite small. “Lots of the questions that I and my students have become interested in are questions that demand a different kind of species and testing environment,” said Hauser. He said they’d gotten to a point when they...
...Again, that might reflect a sense of fairness - why should we help people who stretched beyond their means to buy McMansions? - but it ignores the facts that the delinquency rate among jumbo loans is spiking and that a foreclosed property hurts the value of surrounding ones, no matter the size of the house...
...standard definition. As CNET recently wrote, movies on Blu-ray disks can cost about twice what a regular resolution DVD does. The backers of Blu-ray and HD DVD each spent billions of dollars to win a market which may not even exist, at least not at the size they thought it would...
Rising pay on Wall Street was the biggest single contributor to the shift. "This was all market-oriented," says Kaplan. "Part of the reason you saw such a big increase in pay over time was just an increase in scale." The sums of money managed and size of transactions arranged by Wall Street grew exponentially, starting in the 1980s. So did profits and pay. You can argue that CEO compensation is a rigged game, but on Wall Street, lavish pay packages have never been restricted to the top of the executive ladder. Top-performing investment bankers and traders were paid...