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...endowment now totals $10.1 billion. The largest higher educational endowment to announce a loss so far, the University of Pennsylvania, dropped 3.9 percent on the year. But the Philadelphia school still bested the negative 4.4 percent median return of 165 peer institutions, as measured by the Trust Universe Comparison Service. While these returns pale in comparison to the consistent double-digit returns posted by the wealthiest university endowments over the past few years, they remain robust in light of the worst financial downturn in decades—one that has prompted a U.S. government plan to purchase...
...findings, published last Wednesday on the Web site of the British Medical Journal, also show that the risk reduction from making any single healthy lifestyle choice pales in comparison to the benefits from following a combination of factors...
...MySpace; the rest of my family and all of my friends are on Facebook. It remains to be seen whether MyMusic will be enough to get them to migrate. Also, Rhapsody streams music to my home music system, Sonos, which wirelessly connects to speakers throughout my house. By comparison, the free portion of MySpace Music streams tunes only to the computer at this point. So I'll keep subscribing to Rhapsody, but I'm guessing its days - in my household, anyway - are numbered...
...that Bronx is the poorest district located in the “richest city in the world.” But measured by personal net earnings, New York did not even make the global top ten last year. Did Mr. Serrano mean to make a more modest U.S.-limited comparison, perhaps? A 2005 Forbes rating by the highest median household income reveals that neither New York nor Los Angeles are among the ten richest cities, even in the United States...
...British goth rockers The Mission.The United States is relatively new territory for ATP, and its only previous stateside incursions were held in Los Angeles. Still, Hogan is confident that ATP NY will stand out among American music festivals. The festival is only selling about 2,800 tickets; by comparison, Coachella Music Festival in Indio, CA has over 60,000 attendees. Hogan also explained that ATP tries not to completely rely on advertising. “Some of the bigger festivals here really seem to be striving on sponsorships,” he says...