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With its announcement yesterday, the University became just the second non-profit organization to report an endowment in excess of $20 billion, joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation at the top of the non-profit world, according to a survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education...
Less is more? For much of the 20th century, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's famous formulation was a guiding principle of design and not just for architects. But even when pared-down Modernism was at the height of its prestige, there was a countertradition of glorious excess. "Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture," an exhibition that runs from Oct. 9 through Jan. 16 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, traces an aesthetic of surplus and superabundance that continually bursts forth in clothing, buildings, automobiles and objects--a taste for luxury, spectacle and even pure, shameless glitz that...
...good news is that simple lifestyle changes can make an enormous difference. No, you don't have to lose all the excess rolls of fat around your middle. In fact, you don't necessarily have to lose any weight as long as you start moving around and getting more exercise--at least half an hour a day most days of the week. Best of all, of course, is to combine the exercise with some weight loss. Losing as little as 5 lbs. can lower your blood pressure and decrease the need for medication, according to Dr. Daniel Jones...
...Vegas is a metaphor for the future of the U.S. [July 26]. Excess freedom when mixed with excess wealth has its disadvantages. Perhaps Sin City might eventually spin into a larger whirlpool and create a Sin Country. History has its lessons: Rome had its Colosseum; America has its Las Vegas. KADIRI FATAH Otta, Nigeria...
...also want to get excess coverage, such as a personal-articles policy, to insure valuable possessions. Make sure you keep your insurance documents in a safe place outside your home in case a disaster hits. And if you have to evacuate, remember to take the name and number of your insurance agent with...