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Given the current unemployment rate, traditionally tailored clothing takes on a whole new allure. "Many people are out of work. They're looking for jobs, going on interviews," notes Colleen Sherin, fashion market director of Saks Fifth Avenue. "A jacket and the idea of protection and security that it brings can really give a woman confidence...
...longtime journalist is the author of the best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love. Sister Mary Scullion has helped reduce the number of people living on the streets of Philadelphia by half. Over 95% of those who cycle through her Project H.O.M.E. program have never again become homeless, a success rate that has made the program a model for dozens of other U.S. cities...
Teen-pregnancy and birth rates in the U.S. continue to look like an epidemic compared with those in other Western countries. In 2006 there were 41.9 births for every 1,000 U.S. teens ages 15 to 19, a rate more than three times that of Canada (13.3 per 1,000). But the U.S. numbers have dropped dramatically since the early 1990s. Over the past 15 years, teenagers have had less sex than previous generations had, and they have been more likely to use protection when they have had sex. Activists on both the right and the left have happily stepped...
...four months last year from its peak value of $36.9 billion, University President Drew G. Faust has repeatedly stated that the University estimates a 30 percent decline in endowment value by June 30. The Corporation—Harvard’s highest governing body—adjusts the payout rate each year according to endowment returns, ensuring that the amount of money available for budgeting does not experience wild fluctuations from year to year. The University generally targets a 5 to 5.5 percent endowment payout rate, but the payout rate has not exceeded that level since 2004, due to above...
...first shotouts to Dunster, Mather, and Eliot for currently having the biggest representation. Other houses here include Pfoho and Currier. FlyBy gives a hearty boo to all you houses who are MIA: Leverett, Kirkland, Quincy, Adams, Cabot, Lowell, and Winthrop. WHERE YOU AT??? At any rate, hopefully we'll find some humor today, though I doubt we'll top probably the finest of housing day moments...