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Harold has worked for the past four years with Project Reality, an organization that encourages youth to avoid risk behaviors like sex, drugs and alcohol...
...universal prescription drug coverage is laudatory, there are still some problems with its implementation. It is inexcusable that women’s contraceptive pills are not covered, especially considering that men can claim up to eight doses of Viagra per month. Part of keeping students healthy is helping them avoid unwanted pregnancies. Available contraceptive pills are just as important as free condoms or first year sex education. Harvard should not hide behind the excuse that not covering contraceptive pills is “common practice;” it should take the lead in combating these clearly discriminatory practices...
Prohibiting students from filing simultaneous early applications helps to avoid situations where a student breaks an early commitment but the school to which they are bound does not find out until they fail to receive a deposit...
...drama That Was Then (Fridays, 9 p.m. E.T.) and the WB's sitcom Do Over (Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.), a salesman in his 30s gets transported back in time to relive high school, fix his parents' marriage, win over the unrequited love of his life and avoid flubbing a speech in front of the school. (Happy teens, apparently, do not become TV writers...
...activity may offer buy and sell signals on individual stocks, though investors should never follow insiders blindly. Sometimes executives buy just because they want to get Wall Street's attention or they misread the market. They also tend to act far in advance of expected news, in part to avoid the appearance of illegal insider trading. So patience is key. New research by Bin Ke and Steven Huddart of Pennsylvania State University and Kathy Petroni of Michigan State suggests that insider activity precedes specific company news by three to nine quarters. The current buying, then, may preface gains that...