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...typical family health plan now costs $9,068 a year, and companies intend to ask workers to pay more next year, according to the latest survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The California supermarkets fear that if they don't shift more costs to employees, they will lose the ability to compete against operations like Wal-Mart, whose overall costs for goods and labor are lower. "In order for us to stay competitive, we need labor contracts that are good for both our employees and our companies," the grocers explained in newspaper...
...child-care emergencies, grandmothers are often the first line of defense. But pitching in to help with the baby-sitting may be taking a toll on Grandma's health. According to an ongoing survey of 55,000 registered nurses, grandmothers who provide child-care for nine hours or more a week have a 55% higher risk of having a heart attack. The study did not try to determine why, but stress may be a factor. It may also be that grandmothers with heavy child-care demands have less time to practice good health habits. So Grandma may need--and want...
Given this trend, it’s not surprising that a 2000 Women’s Leadership Project survey reported 44 percent of Harvard women felt their male peers spoke up more in class. “Oh it’s a classic issue,” said Lee A. Warren, Associate Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning—the institution that trains Harvard teaching fellows. “This topic comes up very often at Harvard and it has been going on for a long, long time…I think some women...
...This daily morning meditation, hosted by the graduate student sector of the Harvard Buddhist Community (HBC) and regularly offered since the mid-1980s, is part of a growing interest in Buddhism on campus and nationally. According to data collected in the American Religious Identification Survey, a study run by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the percentage of Americans who identified themselves as Buddhist doubled from 1990 to 2001 (0.23 percent to 0.53 percent). While a portion of these numbers comes from the immigrant Asian population, “there has also been a turn toward...
Hell, why stop at silencing dissent when you can fabricate agreement? Earlier this year the FDA released a paper addressing the controversial issue of direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising by pharmaceutical companies, which is often charged with misleading consumers. The FDA paper claimed that, according to a recent survey of physicians, “most [physicians] agreed that, because their patients saw a DTC ad, he or she asked more thoughtful questions during the visit.” This claim is actually accurate—if by “most” physicians, the FDA meant four percent...