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Council President Rohit Chopra, who also serves on the library committee, hailed the policy’s implementation as a long-awaited boon to over-fined students...
Monterey, Calif. - It was the day for the kind of tough questions at TIME?s Future of Life conference that raise temperatures and unleash tempers: Should we begin planning for an onslaught of designer babies? Has the genomics revolution hoodwinked investors? Are genetically modified crops a menace or boon to the world?s food supply? With all the hoopla over gene-splicing, have biologists lost sight of more mundane issues like the devastating loss of plant and animal species...
...surprisingly, economic motives lurk at least in part behind this bill. One of the bill’s main sources of support is the Massachusetts prison guard lobby. Increasing the number of criminals in solitary confinement is a boon to the prison guard workforce, since it increases the demand for their services, as procedures dictate that several guards must be present during the movement of high security prisoners into and out of their cells...
...year-old former piano salesman has built Bookoff from a single store into a 700-outlet phenomenon in only 12 years. While nationwide book sales have declined 14% over the past six years, Bookoff's formula of selling secondhand best sellers at bargain rates has been a recession-era boon. In the past fiscal year, Bookoff increased sales 20% to $179 million, making it Japan's ninth largest bookseller. "There was a demand for inexpensive used books out there," says Sakamoto. "We just fill that demand...
...copy print run free to students, the Patriot has relied on donations from wealthy individuals and conservative foundations across the country. Its critics regard such contributions as an attempt by conservatives elsewhere to insinuate themselves into Berkeley politics. But Berkeley's leftist reputation has proved a boon to fund-raising efforts; donors view the Patriot as a beachhead of right-wing thought at a famously liberal university. "In a way, our legacy helps us," says Patriot co-founder Barnett. "People in Alabama may not necessarily be spurred to support a conservative group at Washington State, but Berkeley? They'll send...