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...Company, which grew the endowment to $25.9 billion during 2005.Despite the $44 million surplus, costs still crept upward in several areas.Ballooning energy costs and the expense of maintaining Harvard’s property drove up space and occupancy costs by 11 percent. The University added another 1.6 million square feet during fiscal 2005, according to the report.“The University is actively identifying and implementing strategies to mitigate the effects of volatility in the energy markets,” the report stated.Harvard also spent $470 million on the construction of new facilities, as well as new acquisitions...
...Baker was flying alone on his twin-engine Beechcraft Baron BE 55 to meet his wife at their Nantucket home on Thursday when his plane disappeared off the radar and lost contact with the local airport’s radio control tower at 4:45 p.m., dropping below 200 feet about two and a half miles from the airport.The plane, which had taken off from the airport in Teterboro, N.J. earlier that afternoon, had been cleared to land at Nantucket Memorial Airport and did not transmit a distress signal. The weather in the Nantucket area at the time was cloudy...
...impossible shot. Three feet beyond the arc, off-balance and with the shot clock a few ticks from expiration, Central Connecticut State (CCSU) guard Justin Chiera tossed up a wild three-point attempt. The ball banked high off the glass and through the net, widening the Blue Devils’ lead back to 76-66 with three minutes to play and deflating Harvard’s furious second-half rally.That was the way Saturday’s game went for Chiera. The senior scored a career-high 27 points thanks to a career-high seven three-point field goals, making...
Meanwhile, sophomore forward Paul Dufault practices despite an open-ice hit last Friday that left him wobbly on his feet...
Nothing like a diary to give you a glimpse of somebody's inner life. In this diverting follow-up to 2003's Diary of a Worm, also by Cronin and Bliss, Spider confesses his greatest fears--Daddy Longlegs, vacuum cleaners and people with big feet--and shares his grandpa's secret of longevity: Never fall asleep in a shoe. He talks about his unlikely friendship with Fly, whose forebears used to be the enemies of spiders. "Things are different now," says Spider, although Fly sometimes accidentally gets stuck in his web, to the horror of Fly's mother. Worm...