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It's possible that in some cases, particularly with first-time, nonviolent offenders, early-release initiatives could actually help reduce crime. "There are two effects of incarceration," says criminologist Alfred Blumstein of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa. "One is specific deterrence - you go to prison, and you say, 'Holy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Early-Release Programs Raise the Crime Rate? | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

Volatility is almost universally misunderstood: that one number can imply any number of market conditions, all of which mean different things to different investors. That's because volatility assumes stocks prices move in a certain way, but this model is limited and unrealistic. Put options are used to hedge against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stock Volatility Is Down. But Is That Good News? | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

Of course, no H1N1 has been detected in any actual swine in the U.S., and even if it were, Vilsack stressed - his voice sometimes betraying a how-many-times-must-I-repeat-this weariness - people could not get sick by eating infected pork. H1N1 is not a hog-specific virus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pork Gets a Swine Flu Bailout | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

As one of six college students in the program, Barth, a Neurobiology concentrator, spent 10 weeks trying to map specific neural circuits in Bengalese finches—information that researchers hope could one day shed light on how humans process speech.

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mapping a Bird Brain in Japan | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

Museum spokesman Daron Manoogian says that beyond vaults or deadlocks, stored pieces are protected by other security systems as well, though he declined to name them, citing a policy not to comment on specific security measures. “A critical aspect of maintaining proper security for any museum is...

Author: By Antonia M.R. Peacocke, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Harvard Job | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

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