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...satisfy the needs of both parties. Universities should make an effort to shoulder the burden of copyright costs that hike up the price of textbooks. In doing so, however, they must creatively lower costs while remaining within the confines of the law. Although copyright law leads to hundred-dollar course packs that are costly to universities and students, intellectual property law ensures the ongoing production of the journals and scholarly work that are necessary to our studies. Scholarly journals could not survive without these copyright costs, and academia would suffer a loss without the existence of these journals, which provide...
...hedge the risk of interest rate changes.) That experience made him confident in challenging financial orthodoxy. "I was tossed out of banks across America," says Sandor. "They said interest rates wouldn't change, that financial futures were pointless." They were wrong - financial futures are now a multi-trillion-dollar industry, and Sandor is a very rich man. (Hear Sandor talk about the emissions trading market on this week's Greencast...
...plan of implementation. Panelists and attendees consistently broke down the practical application of the nutritional advice and offered recipe alternatives that would be palatable to less adventurous diners. Progress is slowly being made throughout the country, one whole-wheat bun at a time. And with a 500 million dollar grant from the Robert Wood Johnson foundation and their promise to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015, the promise of a healthy and delicious future seems bright. However unrealistic the superstar roster of the Healthy Kitchens conference and its vineyard paradise setting may have been...
...ones carrying a kid, walking with a toddler and pregnant at the same time," Nikolauk said. "They looked like zombies; there was no expression in their eyes." Rosa Martinez, the owner of a popular local restaurant, filled up a grocery cart with food; a stranger gave left a hundred-dollar bill at the door of the church; Mayor Nikolauk washed dishes inside. Cotton farmer Charles Pfluger and his wife Helen, residents for nearly 40 years, helped as well and were deeply touched. "When those children went out to play you could hear those peals of laughter..." Charles Pfluger says...
...Washington, D.C. "Does he disappoint Fidel or does he disappoint the Cuban people? The reality is that the legitimacy of his government rests on pleasing Cubans but not straying too far from Fidel." Analysts like Erikson concede that Raul's reforms, including permission to let Cubans buy electronics in dollar stores and gain title to their own homes, are "marginal" so far. But "for ordinary Cubans it's been a lot of change very quickly," he says. To keep their reform expectations realistic - and to appease diehard Fidelistas in the government - Raul has to indulge "Fidel's new habit...