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...reflects a broader movement away from jobs in financial services to roles in public service, and Teach for America is reaping the benefits.The program, which plans to grow to 4,224 corps members in 2010 (from approximately 3,700), should have little trouble meeting its numbers.RISING INTERESTSince the market downturn began, Hinckley, who is an inactive Crimson design editor, said she has noticed growing enthusiasm for TFA on campus. “A lot of people have come up to me in the Lowell Dining Hall asking me about it,” she said. “The responses...
...Retail and food experts say that worry over the high cost of prime meat cuts and the economic downturn have more shoppers checking out supermarket offal offerings. But the return to eating innards was under way even before this year's financial crisis, as celebrity chefs and restaurateurs have encouraged a return to cooking organs such as liver and kidneys, which once enjoyed a central place in British cooking. (See how farmers around the world prepare their crops for harvest...
Last week, Harvard announced its endowment had fallen 22 percent—$8 billion—in four months from its June 30 value of $36.9 billion, a decline that comes amid the worst financial downturn in decades...
...even with top-flight credit, Harvard faces a higher cost of borrowing because of the recent market downturn...
...month of declining sales, and the company's second-quarter net profit plunged nearly 70%. Toyota has cut its earnings forecast for the fiscal year ending March 2009 to $6 billion, which is just one-third the profit it made the previous year. "You are looking at the deepest downturn that Japanese automakers have ever seen," says Chris Richter, senior research analyst at CLSA, a Hong Kong-based brokerage house. "They've faced downturns before, but not downturns in virtually every global market simultaneously. Even Honda Civics and Toyota Priuses aren't selling well...