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...currently the highest paid in the country, according to a recent report by the American Association of University Professors, with an average salary of $192,600 per year. In the 2009 fiscal year, FAS spent $147.8 million on all faculty salaries, according to the Dean’s Annual Report...
Harvard’s other recent efforts to improve sustainability include its agreement made on Nov. 2 to purchase 10 percent of its annual electricity usage in the form of wind power, making the University the largest institutional buyer of that type of energy...
...House Transportation Committee chairman James Oberstar. "[It] means, unless we do something about it, we'll start losing jobs instead of creating jobs in the construction sector," he says. For that reason, one part of a proposed jobs bill would subsidize 30 states that are unlikely to meet their annual highway commitments next year and would top off the Highway Trust Fund. Pelosi last summer had pushed for a $600 billion six-year highway reauthorization bill, but the Administration and Senate balked at raising gas taxes, which is how the bill is traditionally paid for. Instead, Oberstar and House Appropriations...
...potential jobs bill. "The appropriations bills can also be looked at as jobs bills," says a Senate Democratic leadership aide. "There's money in them for projects that will create jobs." Indeed, if tradition holds, many of these jobs provisions will get loaded on the back of the annual defense appropriations bill - typically the last bill passed in the year. After all, almost no member of Congress is willing to vote against funding the troops, even if some of that money finds its way back to help civilians at home...
...annual time of joy in Thailand has been transformed into a period of unease as most ceremonies marking the birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej have been cancelled or postponed this year. The king, who will turn 82 on Saturday, is scheduled to appear in public on his birthday for an audience with members of the Cabinet and parliament, but will forgo his yearly speech to the nation, review of the Royal Guards and most of the other pomp and pageantry that usually accompanies the celebrations. The Dec. 5 outing will be only his second public appearance since being admitted...