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...Markets always lead us out of recession by anticipating recovery in the same way their fears of economic slowing accelerate the arrival of that very crunch," Touati says. "Right now, a lot of the medicine for a remedy for long-term recovery is already out there, but markets are in such a micro-short-term speculative mode they aren't taking it. That's what has driven share prices of many fundamentally sound companies so low that investors willing to take a risk now will make a killing in the longer term...
...measure of how volatile investors reckon markets will be in the short term, the sharp sell-offs seen in recent months have sent the VIX to its eye-popping highs. The index is calculated from the price of options - a deal to buy or sell an asset at a fixed price and time - linked to the S&P 500. As the value of that index plummets - the leading benchmark of U.S. stocks has lost about a third of its value this year - investors are scrambling to pick up options in order to hedge against those losses. That, in turn, drives...
...plays across the screen, narrated by Shigehisa Kuriyama, a professor of East Asian studies. As the name implies, the class is a historical comparison of the body and medicine in East Asia and Europe, and its approach is anything but traditional. Kuriyama jettisons the traditional required term paper in favor of newer pedagogical measures—making movies and podcasts. The approach may mark a new path for General Education at Harvard. THE BODY, REDISCOVERED
...Emmy has been the Art Museum's most active and dedicated benefactor, and her and Joe's long-term, substantive support has enriched the experience of countless students, researchers, and visitors," said Thomas W. Lentz, the director of the Harvard Art Museum. "This current gift provides tremendous new strength in the museum's holdings of modern and contemporary...
...BASE jump is a parachuted jump from a fixed object - a mountain, a building, anything that rises high into the air. The term is an acronym for the types of structures off of which jumpers fling themselves: Buildings, Antennas, Spans (bridges) and Earth (rocks). Carl Boenish, a cinematographer who had been filming freefall parachuting for several years, coined the term in 1981 as a way to categorize various jumps...