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That sort of context might prove useful for thinking about the day's broader market moves. To be sure, it was a happy one on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 5.8%. The broader S&P 500 index rose 6.4%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite gained 7.1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dow Jumps 5.8% — But It's Just One Day | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

Benjamin G. Edelman ’02, assistant professor at Harvard Business School, is a leading authority on the Internet. His recent paper in The Journal of Economic Perspectives, “Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment?” presents evidence that traditionally conservative states actually...

Author: By Luis Urbina, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions with Benjamin G. Edelman '02 | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

The President's decision does much more than expand funding for stem-cell research. It heralds a shift in the government's view of science, ushering in an era in which it promises to defend science - and the pursuit of useful treatments - against ideology. "It is about ensuring that scientific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Researchers Cheer Obama's Vote for Stem-Cell Science | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

But Monday's Executive Order is less about pitting the promise of one type of stem cell against another's and more about re-establishing the authority of science, of ensuring that any and every potentially useful avenue of research will be pursued to its end. As the President noted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Researchers Cheer Obama's Vote for Stem-Cell Science | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

A group of concerned Harvard alumni organized protests outside of the Harvard Club of New York last Thursday, demanding that the administration save Harvard jobs. While the University has not officially announced employee layoffs, budgetary cutbacks are expected to result in job losses for workers employed through subcontractors. The protests...

Author: By Brian Mejia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NYC Alums Protest Potential Layoffs | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

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