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...don’t think she’s one to drop her books at the first mention of a prestigious swim meet, as Kolbe declined invitations to both the 2004 Paralympics in Athens and the 2006 World Championships in South Africa due to her commitments at Harvard...
...said. “On the other hand, we can’t be in a situation where we’re bailing people out of bad decisions.” The large cut was to some degree unexpected, as most economists and banks were predicting a quarter point drop. “I thought [the cut] was going to be 25 basis points,” Stock said, using the financial term for one one-hundredth of a percent. “If I had thought it was going to be 50, I would have loved to take advantage...
...benefits of a 1% drop aren't small, and they go beyond blood-sugar control: That reduction translates to a 15% to 20% decrease in heart attack and stroke risk and a 25% to 40% lower risk of diabetes-related eye or kidney disease. "To envision the importance of exercise, imagine an inexpensive pill that could decrease the hemoglobin A1C value by 1 percentage point," write Dr. William Kraus of Duke University Medical Center and Dr. Benjamin Levine of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, in an accompanying editorial. "Diabetes experts would be quick to incorporate this...
...from the 43rd spot last year. Among the 11 criteria in the study were availability of condoms and other contraceptives, STD testing, health center operating hours, and strength of sexual health awareness programs. Harvard was directly tailed in the rankings by Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. The biggest drop for any Ivy League school came from Princeton, which sank 28 spots to 34th. The nation’s crown prince of coital prudence was the University of Minnesota—taking the mantle from Yale, which dropped from first place to number 16. The Report Card?...
...median U.S. income, and the total rises to 3.4 million--more than the entire population of Iowa. Now the bad news: nearly half of lower-income students in the top tier in reading fall out of it by fifth grade. As economically disadvantaged brainiacs get older, 25% of them drop ranks in math in high school, and 41% don't finish college. "We're losing them at every stage in education," says Joshua Wyner, executive vice president of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which wrote the report with public-policy development firm Civic Enterprises...