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This theory has been brought to the fore by the groundbreaking new book, Identity Economics, by economists George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton. The two begin their investigation of students’ incentives with the traditional economic model in which students weigh the monetary costs and benefits of education. Then, however, they look at the social categories common in a school. There are “insiders” are often the jocks or high achievers who are very involved in school life. There are also “outsiders,” the “burnouts?...
...caveat” of using warfarin to inhibit tuberculosis growth is the need to apply very high concentration of the drug to produce desired results—and high dosages of the drug may cause a patient to bleed to death, according to graduate student and lead researcher Rachel Dutton...
Teddy is there to discover the whereabouts of both the missing inmate, Rachel Solando (Emily Mortimer), and, for his own satisfaction, the cryptic Andrew Laeddis (Elias Koteas, doing a neat impression of Robert De Niro's crazed killer in Cape Fear), who Teddy believes was responsible for Dolores' death by fire. Quizzing the patients, he gets evidence that sounds like death threats: a man (Jackie Earle Haley, indelible in a fleeting role) tells Teddy there's a grand plot closing in on the marshal, that he's "the rat in a maze"; one woman scribbles the urgent word...
...might have been the shot heard ’round the ECAC when junior Kate Buesser rifled the puck past the entire Princeton defense and goalie Rachel Weber from just past the blue line. But shortly into the second period, it was clear that the No. 4 Harvard women’s hockey team (20-6-5) had more than one gun in its arsenal as it fired its way to a 4-1 victory over the Tigers—and a sweep of the ECAC quarterfinals—Saturday afternoon at Bright Hockey Center...
...took nearly the entire two minutes of advantage to break through the Princeton defense, but with five seconds left on the penalty, junior Liza Ryabkina one-timed a pass from freshman Kelsey Romatoski past Tiger goaltender Rachel Weber...