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...which sent stocks tumbling, with the Dow falling more than 2%, or almost 250 points, in the first two days of the week. The harsh reaction wasn't just due to Bernanke's unusually blunt outlook, though certainly the stock market doesn't like higher interest rates, which tend to crimp corporate profits as people are lured to save money instead of spend. It was also that his position on interest rates flat out shocked the markets ? and there are few things investors dislike more than surprises. The Fed has raised interest rates 16 times...
...come in handy. But consumers looking for quick nutrition should probably look elsewhere, according to Amy Lanou, a nutritionist at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. "People think of turkey as a lighter meat, less fatty," she says. "But when you take a low-cost frozen dinner, they tend to be the cheaper, fattier cuts of meat." One product with surprising nutritional content is Swanson's Hungry Man XXL Roasted Carved Turkey, which clocks in at 5,410 mg of sodium per package. "Turkey may seem a quick meal, but between sodium, fat and cholesterol, you're challenging your...
Sheehan D. Scarborough ’07, one of two head captains for dorm crew, said that in general, freshman rooms tend to be cleaner than House rooms. Seniors, who stay in their rooms until the day after Commencement, generally leave a great deal of trash behind, Scarborough said...
...speed of a strong Wisconsin crew, which won its second-straight IRA championship, or the challenge of surprising Georgetown, which came in second. “I think part of our problem [was] that we were fixing too much on Princeton...we see them a lot and we tend to fixate on them a little bit,” junior Rachel Orler said. “IRAs was kind of a shocker for us because we’d always beaten Georgetown in the past.” “It was disappointing to have a third-place finish...
...Drug Abuse is coordinating the clinical trials, which are sponsored by Nabi Biopharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of the vaccine. Gharib said that she was unsure how a nicotine vaccine would affect college-age adults or teenagers. She said that younger people may be less interested in the vaccine because they tend to be more risk-prone than older adults, who may be “feeling mortality a little bit more.” “They kind of get it that this is taking away from their lives,” she said. —Staff writer Katherine...