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...Economics Department has finalized its decision to cut junior seminars from next year’s curriculum after a restriction on the hiring of new visiting faculty members as a result of the financial crisis put strain on the department’s already limited teaching staff...
...million budget deficit for the next fiscal year in light of the economic recession, according to state lawmakers. State Representative Charles Murphy and Secretary of Administration and Finance Leslie Kirwan stressed the need for budget cuts and budgetary redistribution, particularly in the health care sector, to ease economic strain in a panel discussion at the Kennedy School of Government last night. The panel also included Kennedy School Senior Associate Dean and Lecturer in Public Policy Peter B. Zimmerman. Murphy and Kirwan, who both play large roles in determining the state budget, emphasized that the recession will get worse before...
...will host Obama are likely to use their meetings with the U.S. President to smooth the political waters at home. In Britain, amid rising unemployment, Brown faces daunting approval ratings and new elections in just over a year. In Germany, Angela Merkel's governing coalition is coming under increasing strain, with elections just six months away. And then there are the street protesters who will be vying for the spotlight. Large protests - against everything from capitalism to the structure of bank bailouts - are planned for both London and Strasbourg...
...experience of being nervous was instructive because it mimicked, in a way, the cognitive strain under which an ADHD kid takes such tests. ADHD compromises the brain's executive functioning - its ability to master unexpected exercises. The same way I got nervous, ADHD kids get momentarily lost, their attention fractured for a few seconds. Think about when you're reading and get to the end of a paragraph and realize you haven't been paying attention: that's what it's like for ADHD kids, all the time. My actigraph scores confirmed that I wasn't operating normally...
...According to the FT, Leon Black, head of Apollo Management and a crafty investor in distressed debt told the paper that "the extra costs of cleaning up the U.S. banking industry could total as much as $2,000bn", putting further strain on the economy. He said the woes of the commercial property had not yet been reflected fully on bank balance sheets...