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In June, the Council of Ivy Group Presidents agreed to a reduction in football recruits from 140 players over a four-year period to 120, or 30 per season. It was a sour ending to a sweet year for a Harvard football program that posted a 9-0 record in...
Two other rule changes were decided on at the annual spring meeting: the reduction of football coaches from six full-time and six part-time to seven full-time and three part-time; and the establishment of a seven-week span free from all athletic activity in every sport.
All the caution and crossed signals may finally be giving way to bolder action. Last week, a mere 48 hours after Seillière's outburst, Employment and Social Affairs Minister François Fillon announced a decree temporarily liberalizing employee overtime limits from the current 130 hours a year...
There was a time not too long ago when Big Business tended simply to fight environmentalists, arguing that many measures to keep things clean were at best half baked and posed a threat to profitability. But as public concern about the environment grows, there is an increasing acceptance in executive...
WHAT HAS GONE WRONG: Studies show a 20% to 40% reduction in gray matter-the result of a loss of the branches that connect neurons