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...would not be a good idea to take the $3 trillion in upcoming losses from the new "pandemic" to the bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swine Flu Unlikely to Affect the Economy | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...believe we will find a cure, and I hope it will be soon. In a way, it's not about me necessarily getting better. I think that the idea behind any kind of service is that you hope that its impact will outlive you anyway, whether it happens in your lifetime or after. The fact that it happened at all is terrific. If it had something to do with your efforts, great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Michael J. Fox | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...give lectures letter grades. (Diamond's brain-in-a-hatbox episode, posted there as well as on YouTube Edu, got an A average.) The much smaller, more closely edited site also assembles playlists of related lectures, like one titled "Wars Throughout History." Richard Ludlow, 23, came up with the idea for the site when he was struggling with an algebra course at Yale and discovered helpful Web lectures by the author of his textbook, MIT professor Gilbert Strang. Ludlow thinks every school should play more to its strengths and not be shy about letting a professor rely on a rival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Logging On to the Ivy League | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...Vegas properties, Wynn and Encore, would take a pay cut. Salaried workers earning $150,000 or more would see a 15% drop in their paychecks; those making less would take a 10% hit. Hourly employees would go from a 40-hour to a 32-hour week. The idea: save millions of dollars without putting anyone out of a job while maintaining the service level at the luxury hotels. "We don't want anybody on unemployment here," Wynn said at the time, "or without insurance." (See 10 things to buy in a recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Companies Opt for Pay Cuts Instead of Layoffs | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard is to remain true to its mission to go green, it ought to provide students with these eco-friendly detergents at lowered prices and encourage student use of biodegradable products in the laundry rooms. Perhaps a detergent vending machine would be a feasible idea. With easy access to environmentally friendly products, students might begin to think about what they pour into the laundry machines every week...

Author: By Ayse Baybars | Title: Tide of Change | 4/26/2009 | See Source »

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