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...1930s; today, six of them are extinct. Only three varieties--Hampshire, Yorkshire and Duroc--account for 75% of U.S. production. In the 1920s, some 60 breeds of chickens thrived on American farms; today one hybrid, the Cornish Rock cross, supplies nearly every supermarket. A single turkey dominates: the Broad Breasted White, a fast-growing commercial creation with such a huge breast and short legs that it is unable to mate naturally...
...There’s no question [Kirby] will conduct a broad search inside and outside the University,” said Venky, who will take a one-year sabbatical after he steps down...
...flattens, whether it happens over one year or five, it will not undo changes that the boom has wrought in the relationship between homeowner and home. The tech crash and the market slump didn't erase the culture of stocks. Even after day-trading mania disappeared, there remained a broad class of people buying stocks and mutual funds who were more knowledgeable than they used to be about the market and more closely attuned to business news...
...There’s no question [Kirby] will conduct a broad search inside and outside the University,” said Venky, who will take a one-year sabbatical after he steps down...
While the fund’s performance has improved in recent years, Harvard attributes the rise to broad market factors and activism by the fund’s shareholders...