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...Economist Richard Thaler and legal scholar Cass Sunstein, who now heads the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, think we should go even further. In their book Nudge, they sketch a system in which once a year credit-card companies would be required to break out all the fees, interest and other charges customers paid over the past 12 months. That information would come on a person's statement as well as electronically for easier comparison shopping. "By knowing their precise usage and fee payments, customers would get a better sense of what they are paying for," write...
...beauty with that sort of system is that it doesn't impose heavy-handed rules on people who don't need them. After all, 42% of households with credit cards pay off their bills in full each month. Telling people the cost of using their credit cards, in a way they can understand and internalize, levels the playing field and lets each person make an informed, unhindered decision for himself...
...down steps without pain, compared with those sticking with traditional care. That improvement was expected, to a certain extent, since physicians are increasingly aware that acupuncture does have physiological effects on the body. "There is a lot of data now that acupuncture can have an effect on the nervous system, and that the nervous system then has effects on other systems in the body," says Dr. Richard Nahin, acting director of the division of extramural research at the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine...
...childhood in a socioeconomically-depressed Chinatown neighborhood—his family lived in a four-bedroom apartment with three other families—led to an early interest in using the political system to develop his community...
...shuttle information and schedules can be found at http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/passenger_transport_services/. Harvard College is working with Passenger Transport Services to maintain shuttle service during peak hours of ridership, including morning and late afternoon periods. In addition, we have ensured the continuation of Shuttle Tracker, the real-time GPS tracking system which allows students to wait indoors until a shuttle is nearing a stop, helping them plan their schedules more efficiently. However, preliminary service reductions during the academic year will be instituted including the following...