Economic forecasting is a data-driven exercise. Just ask the folks behind Chapman University’s closely watched economic forecast. “It definitely is not a perfect science,” said Raymond Sfeir, the director of Chapman’s A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research and Anderson Chair of Economic Analysis. You need to make sense of what the equations are giving you.” That appreciation for nuance …
SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images Sunlight, supplements and fatty fish are all ways to up your vitamin D intake — but some experts say vitamin D doesn't pack all the benefits once thought. Clines said that people with darker skin tones need a little more time to get their vitamin D allotment because the melanin in the skin competes …
A prominent Lebanese singer and composer known for his strong opinions said he has been deported from Saudi Arabia after a 50-day detention — mostly in solitary confinement — because of opinions expressed online in support of Lebanon’s president and his ally the Iran-backed Hezbollah. Sfeir said he was “a political prisoner” in the Kingdom and his captors only questioned …
