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...strict banking privacy laws are a bonus for foreigners who don't want anyone peeking at their accounts. But the European Union, worried about what it sees as rampant tax evasion, is pushing for more transparency in Europe's banking systems. The E.U. Savings Taxation Directive, which came into effect in 2005, demands that member states and their dependencies either automatically exchange information on the accounts kept in their banks by E.U. residents or start imposing a 15% withholding tax on any foreign-sourced interest paid into those accounts. Most member states agreed to share information, but a few hold...
...time during pregnancy. The data showed that women who experienced a close family member's death during the first three months of pregnancy had a 67% increased risk of having a child who would develop schizophrenia later in life. Stress before pregnancy or in late pregnancy had no such effect; neither did stress associated with a family member's illness...
Though the current study looked only at schizophrenia risk, Abel and her collaborators at the University of Aarhus believe that maternal stress may have a similar effect on the risk of other conditions, among them depression and other mental disorders, along with social consequences such as the risk of criminal conviction or the likelihood of marriage, "things that tend to cluster in the deprived," says Abel. "We have not shown that this is specific to schizophrenia. We've just only looked at schizophrenia...
...working draft” that was presented to the Committee on House Life last Thursday, and they will be included in the Student Handbook only if the Faculty Council approves it. However, the policies, which have not been released to the public in full, apparently went into effect at the beginning of the semester. The Student Handbook is supposed to comprise the important rules that govern student life, and the administration should not enforce policies that are not part of it. Until these new policies have been included in the Handbook, students cannot be held accountable for breaking them...
...This, in turn, could eliminate food-waste (a perennial problem for HUDS), because students are less likely to pile up food they can’t carry to their tables, and therefore are likely to only take what they can eat. Finally, this reduction in consumption could have an effect on individual student health: Not only will students be forced to stand up and walk to the kitchen when they’re still hungry, but they’re likely to avoid the excessive eating that trays so frequently encourage. Essentially, the trayless dining initiative presents...