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This is a genuinely dim proposition based on several critical errors of false assumption. For one thing, although Harvard University has a huge endowment, Harvard College and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) do not. FAS is currently in a budget deficit of around $40 million, and its endowment was only $10 billion (at the time the overall endowment was $22 billion), a fraction of Harvard’s nearly $26 billion total. In fact, Harvard ranks behind peer institutions like Princeton and Yale in terms of arts and sciences endowment per student. And in fiscal year 2004, just...
...compare it with other recorded video, but I did view plenty of it on a 42-inch high-definition plasma TV. Not only were the colors vibrant and accurate, but the action was crisp and easy to watch. However, the picture did not turn out so well in dim lighting, even when I messed with the low-light settings. In those instances, the camcorder?s focus...
Using the map, which showed America and Europe as brightly lit and much of the rest of world as dim or entirely dark, Podesta assessed differences between developed and developing world patterns of energy...
Parker says she felt the “obvious difference” at HAPA events, where students discussed East Asian identities and went out for dim sum, “which I enjoy, but don’t identify with culturally,” she says...
...personal. In 1990 Rice, 41, decided to join the company that made his diabetic mother's insulin. Says the Alabama native: "I know [now] Lilly is why I've had 24 years longer with my mother." His wife also works for the company. Lilly, whose prospects once seemed dim with the loss in 2001 of its patent for the popular antidepressant Prozac, expects a rise in earnings of up to 12% this year, led by new drugs such as Byetta--for diabetes. At the same time, Lilly has cut its workforce nearly 7% since 2004 and has plans to reduce...