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...about the endowment’s future growth rate and federal funding for research.CASH OUTFLOWHarvard’s expenditures increased by about $240 million this year, primarily as a result of increased employee benefit costs and changes in space and utility fees, according to the report.The cost of employee benefits??including health plans and pensions—rose by 12 percent this year, after a 3 percent rise the previous year, as a result of interest rate changes. Post-retirement health costs skyrocketed 30 percent this year after dropping 28 percent last year. To combat the rise...
However, the study also determined that only one-third of tenure-track faculty members responded positively to clarity of tenure standards, assistance in obtaining external grants, and quality and availability of certain benefits??such as spousal hiring assistance, personal leave time, and child care...
...long, drawn-out period of genetic exchange between populations.”The next step for the team is to test whether the human-chimpanzee relationship is an exception or part of a larger pattern.While this sort of hybridization is not an accepted mainstream process, it may have evolutionary benefits??—since they combine traits of different populations, hybrids may be more adaptable, Reich says.Hybridization, he adds, “might be fundamental to the creative process of evolution.”UNANSWERED PRAYERSA seminal 1988 article in the Southern Medical Journal found that heart patients performed...
...Commission later acknowledged, that any standardized tests could be developed to accurately reflect the diversity of higher education curricula. Moreover, setting up a national database to track student performance, in addition to throwing serious privacy concerns by the wayside, will divert federal funds from programs that would produce tangible benefits??not more bureaucracy. Should Bush’s vision prevail, he has left us with little confidence in what will happen to American education should institutions, with their budgets reduced, fail to meet the thresholds they are being held “accountable” to. Whatever money...
...does not have an obligation to systematically clothe, feed, and protect the citizens of other countries. (We may do so, but it is not an obligation.) What’s at stake here is civil and political rights, not economic and social rights. And civil rights presume citizenship. Its benefits??economic and social rights—cannot be systematically dispensed to those without it. The protesters, therefore, should have supported citizenship, not a citizen-less, stateless, world...