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Will the recession result in a higher demand for comedy? -Yaara Tal, Herzliyya, Israel I tell you what'll be a great recession comedy: Crazy Grandma at the Wheel. The movie's only going to cost $5. That's my new thing. All my new films are going to cost $5, or $2 if you bring your own beer. Then we just do one a month, and you'll have Crazy Grandma at the Wheel No. 12 in theaters next July. That's the kind of stuff I'm going to be working on to fight this recession...
...Doctors say there is no biological reason that donating eggs would cause infertility, but they also cannot say for sure that it doesn't. The long-term health effects of egg donation have never actually been studied, in large part because the high cost of studies doesn't "seem justified in terms of what the possible risks [of the procedure] might be," according to Sean Tipton, spokesman for the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). He points out that egg donors undergo the same drug treatment as IVF patients - hormone injections and other drugs that stimulate follicles, promote egg maturation...
...very exceptional year in which virtually every class around the globe, with the single exception of Treasury bonds, went down in value.”He added that while institutions could have boosted their liquidity to hedge against extreme downturns, such a move would come at the cost of long-term investment returns.“I don’t know if anybody has a particularly good answer to that trade-off,” Scudder said.With the global financial market in free fall and the University’s endowment shrinking by at least 22 percent over...
...cost has been the elimination of the junior seminar program,” he said, describing it as a “trade-off?...
...that was before the bottom fell out from nearly every asset class. While some of the instruments, such as credit default swaps, may have hedged against the downturn, other derivative holdings have cost the University dearly. Harvard’s investments in interest-rate swaps, one class of derivative that may be used by both HMC and the University budget office to hedge against interests rate changes on variable-rate debt, would have cost $571 million to terminate as of Oct. 2008, according to a credit rating report from financial rating company Standard and Poor?...