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...While Web-based ventures are the most popular among student entrepreneurs because they are low in cost and relatively easy to develop, some entrepreneurs have dared to venture out of cyberspace. Jessica S. Lin ’09, Julia C. Silverman ’10, Hemali A. Thakkar ’11, and Jessica O. Matthews ’10 are currently working on a project called the sOccket, a soccer ball with an internal device that stores energy every time the ball is kicked. The stored energy would be used as a power source, with the target market being...
...Cost of one year’s instruction in 1880: $200 Cost of tuition for the 2009-2010 school year: $33,696 Number of members in the cast of Acropolis Now, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 161st Show: 12 Number of performances put on this year: 38 Year of the staging of the HPT’s first production, Bombastes Furioso: 1844 Age of Paul Dudley, class of 1690, the youngest person ever to be admitted to Harvard: 10 Estimated IQ of Willian James Sidis, class of 1909, a child prodigy who entered Harvard at age 11: 300 Number...
...operation.” Heiko Hees, Managing Director of PediaPress, said that “many people who received books came back and ordered more.” He added that PediaPress’ goal is to create an alternative to the textbook. A 100-page book will cost approximately $8, yet in an age of increased Internet use, many wonder whether this concept will be successful, since Wikipedia can be accessed online free of charge. “I wouldn’t spend on a book when I can go to Wikipedia online and then...
...moderate concerns, Obama took steps to make his budget more transparent, a point his team never tires of pointing out. He included items that President George W. Bush did not to obscure the true operating cost of the government, such as the money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an annual multibillion-dollar fix of the fees that Medicare pays physicians and Alternative Minimum Tax relief for the middle class. "At least the budget that the Obama Administration presented, even though it's huge and it's a huge deficit - and that enables the other team to beat...
...portraying the outlays as down payments that will save money in the long run. Fiscal conservatives have long drooled over the possibility of taking a scalpel to the fat in Medicare and Medicaid. They were delighted when Obama controversially included $1.1 billion in the stimulus to study the cost effectiveness of the programs. "Health care is the most important part of entitlement reform," says Cooper, "so in a sense, he's advancing strongly on the most important element." (Read TIME's cover story "The Health Care Crisis Hits Home...