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When in high quantities, PCBs—man-made chemicals which were commonly used in buildings built between the 1950s and 1970s and are also often found in fish—can cause cancer and harm the immune system, short-term memory, and cognitive skills of children exposed to the chemical in while in the womb...
...negotiations that were revived this week in the hope of resolving the Honduran coup crisis still haven't cracked the critical issue: whether ousted President Manuel Zelaya will be restored to office and allowed to finish the final three months of his term. The U.S., the Organization of American States (OAS) and every other nation in the world have condemned the June 28 military coup as antidemocratic - and they've warned the installed President, Roberto Micheletti, that they won't recognize the results of Honduras' long-planned Nov. 29 presidential election if Zelaya isn't reinstated beforehand...
...have less than 24 hours to turn in your application to stay on campus for J-term. Confusion has surrounded the housing decision process since even before the application was released earlier this semester, with some officials suggesting a thesis guaranteed a spot on campus come January. Interim Dean of Advising Programs Inge-Lise Ameer has said thesis writers will need to demonstrate a "clear need" to be at Harvard, but what exactly that means, remains unclear...
...such signal: stocks are about as expensive as they have been in the long term, even though the economy remains weak. According to data from Thomson Reuters, the companies in the S&P 500 index are trading at an average 15 times expected earnings over the next 12 months. That's a completely typical valuation. But this isn't a completely typical business environment. If the recovery is slow, and unemployment remains high - and both seem likely - then even a typical valuation will seem too optimistic...
Palfrey pointed both to current financial constraints and the longer-term need to modernize Harvard’s library system as the impetus for reviewing the library system...