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...much of the public reaction to the Treasury Department's plan to dislodge risky loans and poorly performing bonds from banks has been positive. After the plan was announced two weeks ago, the stock market produced one of its biggest rallies in months. At its core, the plan promises to offer cheap loans to investors to purchase bank loans on which borrowers are behind or at risk of default. The plan would put needed cash into the hands of the banks. And on the surface it looks like it could produce sizeable returns for investors, as well as a smaller...
...Harvard’s objective to deliver socially beneficial outcomes to the public from discoveries made by its faculty is embodied in, and advanced by, OTD’s core mission. We actively foster innovation, identify appropriate industrial partners to develop new inventions made at Harvard, and negotiate license agreements that enable the translation of such inventions into new products in the hope of benefiting society. Every relevant invention made at Harvard is an opportunity to contribute to global health and well-being. We take very seriously our commitment to serve the public good...
Just as important, WPS plans to market the league beyond the ponytail posse, its core fan base of tween and pre-tween girls. "The WUSA was more aspirational for young girls," says Antonucci, a former Yahoo! executive and Stanford soccer player who has worked on the league's relaunch for more than four years. "What we're doing is socially important, but it has to be broader than that." In Boston, for example, the players have headed out to city bars to play pool with twenty-somethings and connect with young adult fans. On Sunday the Chicago Red Stars will...
...nothing particularly tragic about it. It didn't kill people. It didn't kill nuclear power, which still provides 20% of U.S. electricity. It didn't even kill TMI; the plant's surviving reactor is about to receive a 20-year extension of its operating license. If anything, the core meltdown did some good, prompting desperately needed upgrades of nuclear safety standards. (See the 10 worst nuclear disasters...
...recent promises to make sizable cuts to Obama's budget resolution, which is more of a blueprint for future spending than any kind of binding legislation. But the Administration put its best spin on the differences, arguing that Congress's offerings retained the commitment to the President's four "core principles" - universal health care, expanded education aid, renewable-energy investments and regulation of greenhouse gases, and provisions to halve the deficit in five years...