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...defiance of such economic troubles as sagging real estate prices, weak corporate profits and the titanic savings and loan mess, investors in the U.S. and overseas have bullishly poured billions of dollars into the stock market during the past month. Last week the Dow Jones average broke the 2900 barrier for the first time, climbing 80 points and closing at 2900.97. All told, the Dow has risen 244 points since May 1 and has set record highs eleven times. The euphoria has spread far beyond the blue-chip Dow. The more broadly based Standard & Poor's 500 index rose...
...that barrier must tumble if Harvard is to live up to its policy of treating all students as equal and free-thinking individuals. Just as the Faculty recently expressed concern about denying Harvard students free speech rights guaranteed to the public, we all should bemoan campus living restrictions that would be considered ridiculous in the real world...
...were ever possible to doubt that the cost of a college education posed a prohibitive class barrier, those doubts should be dispelled now. In fact, as a percentage of the median family's household earnings, a Harvard education costs more now than it did 20 years ago, 25 years ago, even 50 years ago! So much for progress...
...marine biologists, the barrier reef that stretches 242 km (150 miles) along the coast of Belize is one of the seven underwater wonders of the world, a diver's paradise replete with about 45 kinds of coral and hundreds of species of fish. But by the mid-1980s, fishermen, shell collectors, tourists, construction and pollution were endangering the reef's fragile ecosystem. Today, thanks to a two-year-long campaign headed by Janet Patricia Gibson, 37, a Belizean botanist and zoologist, 13 sq. km (5 sq. mi.) of the reef have been set aside as the Hol Chan (Mayan...
...openly declares that following her social conscience comes before any responsibility to shareholders. But respecting the environment has proved no barrier to success. Last year Body Shop sales jumped nearly 60%, to $90 million, earning Roddick the title of Britain's Retailer of the Year...