Nobel Laureate James Heckman co-authors study examining bias in publishing, impact on tenure Too often in economics, where you publish can be more important than what you publish. That’s the theory explored in a new study co-authored by Nobel-winning economist James J. Heckman and Sidharth Moktan, a predoctoral fellow at the Center for the Economics of Human […]
Ryder Cup organizers say they will support "for as long as necessary" the spectator who was hit by a tee shot and has reportedly lost sight in her right eye
Brussels (dpa) - Thousands of protestors in Belgium marched on Tuesday to blast pension reforms proposed by the centre-right government, according to the Belga news agency.The day of protest is the latest move in an ongoing dispute between trade unions and Prime Minister Charles Michel, whose government took power in 2014 and pledged to overhaul areas such as pensions and the country‘s 38-hour working week.According to the police, about 4,000 marched in Brussels and 2,500 in Namur, Belga reported. Читать дальше...
Rajkot (Gujarat) [India], Oct 2 (ANI): Indian vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane has said that the upcoming two-match Test series against West Indies is an opportunity for the young players to prove their cr
Kansai Plascon, owned by Tokyo-listed Kansai Paint, has launched the world's first mosquito repellant paint in Zambia to help it reach a target to eliminate malaria by 2021, the company and a Japanese government official said. Malaria, spread by mosquitoes, is a treatable disease if caught early, but current anti-malarial drugs are failing in many areas as people develop resistance to them.
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An opening day Conservative conference speech by former CBI Director-General Digby Jones might not have been expected to diagnose the Prime Minister’s key weakness.
But defending Theresa May’s Brexit approach, the former Labour minister unwittingly exposed the reason that the Prime Minister has alienated much of her party: she is a vision-free zone.
Riffing off Theresa May’s earlier Marr interview, Jones warned politicians and party members about the consequences of division over Chequers. Читать дальше...
Klavon's customers won't be the only ones with their hunger satisfied when a pizza is purchased on any Tuesday in October.
A town mayor in the south of Italy, known for his innovative approach to welcoming asylum seekers, was put under house arrest on Tuesday for allegedly favouring illegal migration, angering supporters but pleasing the anti-immigration interior minister. Domenico Lucano, 60, mayor of Riace, a hilltop medieval town in Italy's poor Calabria region, was put under home confinement by the finance police in the early hours, the local prosecutor's office said. A statement said Lucano and his partner, Tesfahun Lemlem... Читать дальше...
On Tuesday morning, three fluffy citizens were born - bringing joy to thousands of online bird-watchers in Melbourne.
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — An annual homecoming bonfire that attracts thousands to Dartmouth College will be shorter, squatter and safer this year. In June, the town of Hanover said it would not approve a permit for the three-story fire, citing the risk that the structure could collapse and cause injuries and concerns about drunken and dangerous student behavior. The college created a working group to propose changes, which recently were approved by the town. College officials say the bonfire that will be lit Oct. Читать дальше...
A U.S. diplomat who warned that the United States might try to "take out" a missile Washington says Russia is developing in violation of a major treaty has clarified her comments, saying she was not referring to a preemptive strike.
A game with 36 pass plays left Vikings defensive linemen feeling like there weren’t enough chances to attack Rams quarterback Jared Goff. About half of those plays — 17 — were play-action passes, many of which involved a bootleg or line shift that had players like defensive end Stephen Weatherly first reading the run, then often fighting “against the grain” to rush the quarterback. “There weren’t many, I think maybe a handful of actual dropback passes where he’d get off the ball and it’s you vs. your tackle,” Weatherly said Monday. Читать дальше...
A judge in Mississippi declared a second mistrial on Monday in the case of a man accused in the burning death of Jessica Chambers after a jury once again could not reach a verdict.
Radhika Apte said she is "struggling to find out what she is going to do next"
MAURICIO POCHETTINO has been putting his players through their paces in training — after insisting “it’s impossible” for him to manager Barcelona. The Tottenham boss has been directing their final training session before the big game at Wembley Stadium tomorrow night. But the club also confirmed the news that a host of top stars are out […]
The report on her questioning of Christine Ford and Brett Kavanaugh reads like the work of a GOP operative, not a serious sex-crimes prosecutor.
A worker at an Amazon warehouse in Aurora, Colo.
The greatest show in fashion, a Chanel runway extravaganza in Paris, produced another proper fashion moment Tuesday morning, with an elegiac vision of summer before a giant audience.
The U.S. ambassador to NATO has said that if necessary, the United States would consider destroying a Russian missile system that Washington contends Moscow is developing in violation of a nuclear arms treaty.
Steve Watson | Twitter restricts account of Georgetown professor who said “entitled white men” should be murdered and fed to pigs.
The U.S. ambassador to NATO has said that if necessary, the United States would consider destroying a Russian missile system that Washington contends Moscow is developing in violation of a nuclear arms treaty.
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Tuesday paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at his memorial here and hailed him as a "great soul" and humanity's "guide in our troubled world".
At the heart of this year’s Cumnock Tryst Festival, themed around the Armistice Day centenary, is a major new work by the festival’s founder and director, Sir James MacMillan. It’s an oratorio based on texts by a First Word War poet, though not a name we’d readily identify among the customary ranks of Sassoon, Owen and Gurney.