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SEC Expected to Raise More Questions About How Firms Calculate Non-GAAP Measures

The inquiries could prompt more companies’ audit committees to more closely review non-GAAP disclosures to ensure the rationale behind the measures are thoroughly explained before filing with the SEC, said H. David Sherman, an accounting professor at Northeastern University and former SEC academic fellow. 
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US child labour violations rise as businesses defy laws to fill roles

“At first, we were like, ‘Yay, teenagers are finally back to taking teenager jobs that they have been pushed out of’, like at ice cream shops and as lifeguards,” said Alicia Sasser Modestino, public policy and economics professor at Northeastern University.
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Supreme Court to hear Biden’s student loan forgiveness arguments Tuesday. 3 things to know

For a number of reasons, Dan Urman, a law professor at Northeastern University, also predicts student loan forgiveness won’t survive the Supreme Court.
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Opponents of my kids’ math program have their calculus all wrong

By Régine Michelle Jean-Charles is dean’s professor of culture and social justice and director of Africana studies at Northeastern University.
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Forever Pollution Project: How ‘Le Monde’ traced PFAS chemicals across Europe

“Our main goal was to address the disconnection between known contamination and where contamination actually is out in the world,” explained Alissa Cordner (Whitman College, Walla Walla) and Phil Brown (Northeastern University, Boston).
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Mass. high court rules infidelity can no longer be used as excuse to reduce murder charge

“The idea is that under very specific circumstances, if you kill someone intentionally, but you do so because you were provoked and in a state of hot blood, then that crime…can be reduced to something called voluntary manslaughter,” said Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University. 
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Why Americans Are Lonely And What We Can Do About It

There are things I need to do for self-care, but we also need to make sure we design our systems and communities around making sure people have space to have healthy lifestyles.” — Dr. Kayse Lee Maass, industrial engineering professor who leads the Operations Research and Social Justice lab at Northeastern University.
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Shoppers Are Stuck in a Dupe Loop

According to Amy Pei, a marketing professor at Northeastern University who studies shopping on digital platforms, there’s no real beginning to the dupe trend.
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This Robotic Exoskeleton Could Give You Superhuman Balance

This article was originally published on The Conversation by Lena Ting at Emory University, Gregory S. Sawicki at Georgia Institute of Technology, Max Shepherd at Northeastern University, and Owen Beck at The University of Texas at Austin.
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‘Nobody has answers’: Ohio residents fearful of health risks near train site

Officials should also test for PFAS likely contaminating soil and water, said Kimberly Garrett, a Northeastern University toxicologist
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How a Dubious Parasite Cleanse Keeps Taking Over TikTok

That blind faith could end up being a legal liability for both the company and its content creator partners, said Alexandra Roberts, a lawyer who researches media law at Northeastern University.
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Exposed: 17,000 European sites contaminated by forever chemicals. Where are the worst spots?

The results are extremely concerning, said Phil Brown, a health sciences professor at Boston’s Northeastern University.