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...Brian R. Leiter, a University of Chicago law professor and legal blogger. “If it’s all dependent on her force of personality, Harvard is in trouble.”The decline of the University’s endowment, which fell by an estimated 22 percent in four months during a period of global economic turmoil, may restrict the new dean’s first moves. As the University prepares to tighten its belt, Kagan’s successor will inherit the responsibility of making decisions based on financial compromises.As a result, Law School professor Richard...
...Winickoff explained. He added that because children weigh less, toxins that they inhale affect them more than they do adults. Winickoff and his colleagues collected their data through a national random-digit-dial telephone survey from September to November 2005. Their analysis of the gathered data revealed that 65.2 percent of nonsmokers said they thought that third-hand smoke harms children, compared 43.3 percent of smokers. Additionally, 95.4 percent of nonsmokers said they thought that secondhand smoke is damaging to children’s health, compared to 84.1 percent of smokers. The researchers also found that nonsmokers’ households...
...leave Harvard’s Institute of Politics this week for your more spacious new quarters on the National Mall, America’s farmers are doubtless foremost on your mind. But the success of your tenure will more likely be judged by its impact on the 98 percent of Americans who don’t farm but do eat—and to serve them your agency needs radical reforms...
...When President Lincoln established the United States Department of Agriculture in 1862, he nicknamed it “the People’s Department,” in recognition of the roughly 50 percent of Americans who lived off farming income at the time...
...health impacts of this regulatory void go further. Factory farmers give their animals mountains of antibiotics to spur rapid growth, such that the Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that 70 percent of America’s antibiotics are now used on animals, not humans (the USDA doesn’t even bother recording their use, so no exact figures exist...