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Returns on the University's endowment soared to 26 percent in fiscal year 1996, up 9.4 percent from fiscal year 1995--8.4 percent above the median large fund performance reported by the Trust Universe Comparison Service...
...comparison, I looked at the coverage in The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald. The Globe ran a more innocuous title and first line: "Rhetoric heats up in Kerry, Weld debate-- In their fifth and most aggressive debate so far, Sen. John F. Kerry and Gov. William F. Weld made one thing perfectly clear: They disagree about almost everything...
Their verdict: a feeding T. rex could have exerted up to 3,011 lbs. of biting force. (It would have used greater force while attacking.) A human's bite, by comparison, packs 175 lbs.; a lion's, 937; and an alligator's, just under 3,000. The research addresses only one aspect of the predator vs. scavenger question. But if scientists can find several bones with T. rex bite wounds that later healed--showing that the animals weren't already dead when they were chomped on--that might settle the debate for good...
...Regulators, written under King's occasional nom de plume, Richard Bachman (Dutton; 475 pages; $24.95). Along with The Green Mile's 592 pages, this means King will have graced his fans with a total of 1,755 pages of fiction in less than 12 months. By way of comparison, you can get a standard-size, paperback King James Version of the Bible that tallies only 1,112 pages--a pretty slack job considering the Bible's authors had a number of centuries in which to crank it out (although in fairness to Moses, Jeremiah, Matthew, Mark et al., it must...
...mind boggling to see the adoration and the financial rewards that contemporary society ungrudgingly offers players of sports, games and music in comparison with the recompense given workers in sustaining occupations like farming, construction, teaching and transportation. In making play incredibly more profitable than work, hasn't society got its values upside down? Oduro Asante Versoix, Switzerland Via E-mail...