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Proceeds from the sale will allow Harvard to push back payments for outstanding debt and provide more cash to meet the demands of University budgets without selling the endowment’s other holdings at depressed prices...
...Competition did become intense earlier this fall as it is now, and students new and old can’t be blamed for trying their hardest to succeed in their activities. But we may allow the lessons of the freshman campaigns to inform our vote for president. The campaign that takes its time to develop serious and innovative ideas for the UC might not be the most glamorous or funniest one. But it is the one most deserving of our attention and our vote. After all, Washington may be a long way off, but the road starts here...
Apparently, some of our peers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have made a deal with the digital devil. In exchange for a free Windows Mobile “smartphone,” about 100 MIT students have agreed to allow researchers at the Media Lab to track their every digital move, including phone calls, e-mails, and text messages. The scientists at the Media Lab are not working for the students’ families, significant others, or the Department of Homeland Security. Instead, all of this data is being used to explore a new field known as collective intelligence...
...bonanzas without casualties. But it's imperative to make the process fair and predictable. If, for example, people wait in a snaked line with ropes or are given numbers, then they know in advance who goes first - and do not feel the need to compete when the doors open. "Allow those who have waited longest to get in first," says Still. "Let them in one at a time. Then everyone knows it's a fair system. Very quickly you see that people's behavior adapts...
...next three years in order to fund research into carbon capture and storage. The bank is partnering with the Center for the Environment as part of its ten-year, $20-billion plan to support environmentally-oriented innovation by investing in renewable energy and financing sustainable construction. The grant will allow the center to step up its research efforts into carbon capture as part of Harvard’s Climate Solutions Program. Carbon capture and storage is the practice of depositing compressed carbon dioxide within geologic formations in order to prevent its release into the atmosphere. “We?...