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Americans in households making less than $30,000 a year spend nearly 20% of their lives in moderate to severe pain, compared with less than 8% of people in households earning above $100,000, according to a landmark study on how Americans experience in pain. The findings, published Thursday in the British journal the Lancet, also found that participants who hadn't finished high school reported feeling twice the amount of pain as college graduates. "To a significant extent, pain does separate the classes," says Princeton economist Alan Krueger, who authored the study along with Dr. Arthur Stone, a psychiatry...
...research far before they have to choose an advisor or commit to a topic. Very few non-study abroad students have this luxury. In particular, making headway on thesis research during junior year is useful for students who wish to hold summer internships before their senior year. Students who spend that final summer working often find themselves back at Harvard in September with a job, but no idea what their thesis is about. Planned well, study abroad can allow students to avoid having to choose between graduating with honors and securing a job before senior year...
...Just because you don’t spend your entire life learning about particle physics doesn’t mean you don’t want to see how it all fits together,” Randall said. “I wanted to make the point that the universe isn’t necessarily so neat, I wanted the public to be able to go beyond the elegance and beauty to understand a physics that matched their reality...
Harvard’s $35-billion endowment has also drawn scrutiny from Washington, where Senator Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican, has proposed legislation to make universities spend five percent of their wealth each year, as foundations must...
...threat of voter fraud—are misguided. This law, which is one of the nation’s toughest, does not allow voters to use utility or phone bills or employee identification at the polls. The necessity of government-issued photo ID means that citizens are required to spend money on an ID which might be useless to them in all other contexts. Although the Supreme Court disagrees, this action is blatantly discriminatory toward those people who do not need driver’s licenses. Although the Indiana motor vehicle agency will grant a free, non-driver?...