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Residents and board members have often pressured Harvard to provide a better sense of its long-term development plans rather than revealing building projects one at a time. But Spiegelman emphasized yesterday that the University’s physical expansion is driven by academic programs, which in turn have to respond flexibly to world events...
...convinced she can help heal the country's political rifts. "Russia now understands that Ukraine chooses its presidents and appoints its prime ministers itself," Tymoshenko told Time. "I'm sure I'll handle the job well." She's certainly got all the right qualifications. Charismatic, competent and driven, Tymoshenko, 44, trained as an economist and launched one of the first Gorbachev-era cooperatives - a chain of videotape-rental shops - in the late 1980s. In 1995 she founded United Energy Systems of Ukraine, which managed Russian natural-gas supplies to energy-starved Ukraine under then-Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko. Her ties...
...arrogance, the need for affordable health insurance and, most tragic, the endless slaughter in Iraq. There is no outrage because pollsters tell us our country is evenly divided politically, and the officeholders who should take a stand on those issues find self-preservation preferable to the possibility of being driven from office for doing the right thing...
Finally, a lot of pros believe we're in the early stages of a long run of commodity inflation driven by demand for raw materials in China. The Commodities Research Bureau index has jumped 36% since 1999, prompting institutions to triple the money they have tied to commodities. Stocks or funds of raw-materials companies, including energy and gold mining, are one way to go. Or you could buy an Exchange Traded Fund that directly owns gold, such as iShares Comex Gold (launched last week) or StreetTracks Gold. Or you could try a fund that invests in a commodities index...
...expand its 170-person Beijing research center by 20%, France Telecom announced last June that it would open an R.-and-D. facility in Beijing. Cisco CEO John Chambers announced plans to hire 100 people for a new research center by early 2006. The push into China is driven by more than human resources. Like India, China has a large pool of skilled computer scientists and basic-science researchers. China offers something else too: an entry point to 1 billion Chinese consumers. Motorola's researchers in China, for example, adapted the Chinese-language version of its A760 mobile phone. Other...