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Billionaire philanthropist Lawrence J. Ellison, the chief executive of the software giant Oracle Corp., said that he will donate $115 million to Harvard for the study of global health initiatives. The gift will become the largest in the history of the University...
...It’s absolutely going to happen,” Ellison said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday...
...belt through Indiana, Illinois and Iowa was a healthy bright green, and soybean fields from Minnesota to Missouri sprouted lush and leafy plants. But bounty is a mixed blessing for American farmers, who are mired in a deepening agricultural depression. "This is the crop of our lives," says Roger Ellison, who farms 400 acres of corn and soybeans 45 miles north of Columbia, Mo. "The sad thing is, there's no price in the market...
...Ronald McNair and Gregory Jarvis and New Hampshire Schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe had been seated, apparently absorbed the full force of the blast from the shuttle's huge external fuel tank and was nearly obliterated. The upper flight deck, where the commander, Francis Scobee, as well as Astronauts Michael Smith, Ellison Onizuka and Judith Resnik were seated, was still partly intact. The Navy's team of 40-odd divers managed to bring to the surface the remains of the crew members. The divers also recovered the shuttle's four flight recorders, which might, despite a six-week soak in salt water...
After his sabbatical, Ellison, who is also the Cowles Professor of Anthropology, plans to return to Harvard to teach...