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Gawande disagrees with Pronovost's critique. "There's a synergy between the items on the checklist," he says. "Any one thing at any given time might not add up to much, but the net effect of all of it put together - especially making for more effective teamwork - matters...
...state funding to institutions like the Bronx Zoo in 2009 and 100% of state funding in 2010. According to Calvelli, state dollars make up a small percentage of institution budgets - less than 10% in the case of the Bronx Zoo - but any cuts will only add to anticipated reductions in endowments and other public funding. If the state pulls financing, Calvelli says, service and program cuts as well as (human) layoffs are possible...
...deal is that it has three quality point breaks right next to each other," says Nathaniel Calhoun, 29, a board rider from the U.S. who has surfed Robertsport many times. "It's unique. It's untouched." Add in great weather, spectacular beaches and villagers who'll invite you over for a seafood dinner, and that's loco Liberia, dude...
...Add to that the problem of piracy off Somalia's coast that has lately had the country back in the headlines. Piracy is driven by poverty, and the frustration at seeing the world's fishing fleets plunder your waters, while the global economy, in the form of heavily laden container ships transiting the Suez Canal, quite literally pass you by. Killing pirates, as an international armada now gathering off Somalia aims to do, doesn't address that. It might briefly deter them, but it doesn't address the root cause of the problem...
...their dependence on endowment funds for operations. Hardest hit have been the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study and the Divinity School, both of which utilize the endowment for over 70 percent of their operating budgets. Tilghman said several construction projects already under way at Princeton will continue. She did add, however, that all new projects will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. According to Tilghman, the new allocations will still be higher than they were four years ago, before several years of major increases. The blow to Princeton’s endowment will not have significant impacts...