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Tag: Judy Rakowsky
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Nation & World
Some secrets of longevity
The average life expectancy in the United States has fallen behind that of other industrialized nations as the American income gap has widened. Also, particular health habits, including weight control, nutrition, and exercise, clearly influence the effects aging among segments of the U.S. population.
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Nation & World
Steps against poverty
Delivering the Asia Center’s annual Tsai Lecture, the World Bank Group’s president, Jim Yong Kim, described the bank’s bold push to end world poverty.
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Nation & World
To win elections, get diverse
Republicans must accept a broader definition of their party, finding a way to embrace young voters, women, African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and environmentalists, if they are to avoid repeating the losses of the 2012 election, panelists at an Institute of Politics forum said.
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Nation & World
A nudge toward better outcomes
On Nov. 7, fresh from spending election night in Chicago, Cass Sunstein, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, gave an audience there a peek at how the Obama administration has applied behavioral economics to regulatory decisions.
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Nation & World
Finding our way
Elizabeth Spelke, a professor of psychology, discussed research on how humans develop navigational skills in an event at the Barker Center.
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Nation & World
Ideas to improve the everyday
All-star Harvard faculty members at “Harvard Thinks Big” dazzled and provoked their audience in 10-minute talks Thursday that framed major questions about happiness, stem cell growth, runaway obesity, and the exploding American prison population.
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Nation & World
Moot points, well made
The Harvard Law School teams in the showdown round of the Ames Moot Court Competition tried to persuade a panel headed by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to change the law of the land.
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Nation & World
Creative force
Leaders in the growing field of artist-endowed foundations discussed the challenges and goals of their work in a panel talk at the Sackler Museum.
