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...participate in winter sports’ seminal event, a global festival of athletics and communication, and women’s hockey, with the signs of growing parity, now promises a stronger future than ever before. So whether they come home toting gold or bronze, these half-dozen Crimson standard-bearers will return having fulfilled the Olympic promise. —Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...
...They're probably not the ones you own, though. Big-name companies like GE, Pfizer and Microsoft--which investors and mutual-fund managers tend to gravitate to--have been flailing since the bust. That's why the popular market gauges that those stocks dominate (Dow Jones industrial average, Standard & Poor's 500) still languish below their old highs. Yet the time may have come to stock up on the U.S.'s most recognizable corporate logos...
First the news. A study of more than 36,000 healthy postmenopausal women determined that taking a standard calcium-and-vitamin-D supplement for seven years had no significant effect for most of them on preventing fractures in the spine, arms and hips, although it did lead to a 1% improvement in hip-bone density. Yet women who managed to take the vitamin-mineral combo at least four days out of five had a statistically significant 29% fewer hip fractures. And women over 60 suffered 21% fewer broken hips...
...checks during the campus debate over investments in apartheid South Africa in 1972. While the ACSR research was valuable in prompting the PetroChina decision, they hold little real power—they can only make recommendations and primarily focus on shareholder votes, not screenings of investments. Overall, the Bok standard of ad hoc ethical decision-making—adopted in reaction to student protests over investments in Apartheid—is a formula for managing public relations crises, not a coherent set of guidelines...
...departure from standard trading floors, the website does not prohibit those with insider information from participating...