Word: dollarized
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...Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will now match every dollar of financial aid given to students through need-based federal Pell Grants, MIT President Susan Hockfield announced on Tuesday...
...Response to placebo, nevertheless, is positive - it really works - in over 50% of patients tested in pain studies. It doesn't mean that there's nothing wrong with you - it means your mind is stronger than your pain. It is a fact that the multi-billion dollar alternative remedy industry would like you to forget. No cost, no side-effects, works half the time - more than anything, Placebo raises a lot of interesting questions...
...Memorial Church last night about his trials and successes as a fashion designer and philanthropist. The Foundation’s award recognizes individuals who have made significant humanitarian contributions, such as past recipients actress Sharon Stone and Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The man behind a multi-billion dollar fashion line, Hilfiger drew the Foundation’s attention for his support of education and health programs, such as “Camp Tommy,” a summer program for disadvantaged urban youth, and the Race to Erase Multiple Sclerosis, which funds research into a cure for the disease...
...hours will also allow for more flexible dining options for students who wish to stay on a college meal plan, according to the report. Last month, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) said it would not expand Harvard’s dining hours, citing an upcoming budget deficit and inefficient dollar-per-student ratios. In an e-mail, Executive Director of HUDS Ted A. Mayer wrote that the two Ivies have very different dining needs. “The differences between Harvard and Princeton’s meal plans are more than perception,” Mayer wrote, noting that...
...comments sound like song cues in an old musical.) But Haggis had been on stage earlier, as a Screenplay winner. Besides, his victory was unique, at least to lovers of Oscar trivia. He became the first person to have written two consecutive Best Pictures (after last year?s Million Dollar Baby). Haggis was also, by my calculations, the first member of the Church of Scientology to win Best Picture...