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More Harvard Square businesses have announced in the past month that they will accept Crimson Cash, a debit-based account that allows University affiliates to make purchases using their Harvard ID cards...
Sebastián first fell in love with biology at the University of Puerto Rico, not far from where he was born. His eyes light up as he recounts reading Harvard luminary Stephen J. Gould’s account of the Burgess Fossils, which hold an exalted place in the pantheon of evolutionary biology. Four weeks ago, he taught a class using those very fossils. “For someone like me, it’s like carrying Bono’s guitar, if you’re a rock fan,” he says. “That?...
Liane L. Young ’04, one of the co-authors of the report, sees these results as possible evidence for a biological account of the way we determine right and wrong. “Morality could be decomposed into these specific neural and cognitive processes,” she said, referring to intention versus outcome...
...fall of 2007, the New York City experiment began. Fourth-graders could earn a maximum of $25 per test, and seventh-graders could earn up to $50 per test. To participate, kids had to get their parents' permission - and 82% of them did. Most of them also opened savings accounts so the money could be directly deposited into them. Meanwhile, Fryer and his team found other testing grounds. In Chicago, Fryer worked with schools chief Arne Duncan, now President Obama's Education Secretary, to design a program to reward ninth-graders for good grades. Over beer and pizza...
...Those reasons extend beyond an overstimulated domestic economy. The geopolitics of the move are also pressing for Beijing. Though exports collapsed last year as the world plunged into recession - China's current account surplus declined by about half as a percentage of its overall economy - that adjustment phase is over. Exports will again add to GDP growth in China this year, and in an era of high unemployment in the U.S. and Europe, the potential for a serious protectionist backlash is very real. (Indeed, a team from Treasury slipped quietly into Beijing recently to make just this point.) For administrations...