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Environmentalists were ecstatic when the House of Representatives passed the carbon cap-and-trade bill, led by Democratic Representatives Henry Waxman and Edward Markey, in June. Certainly, the legislation to limit national greenhouse-gas emissions could have been stronger, but the very possibility that the House would pass any such bill would have been unimaginable a year ago. And the timing was perfect. With do-or-die climate negotiations set for the U.N.'s global-warming summit in Copenhagen at the end of the year, the U.S. needed to show the world that it was ready to act on carbon...
There are many personal-finance software packages that help people track their money, including the industry mastodon, Intuit's Quicken, which dwarfs Mint with 15 million users. But consumers have taken a liking to online money management, mostly because it's free. Microsoft stopped developing its Money program in June, and Intuit started offering Quicken Online for free in October 2008. Banks, too, have started to offer a similar service to their customers, but somehow, having an outside party monitor your bank seems like a better idea. Mint makes some money - it's unclear how much - by recommending credit cards...
Smith said he will begin today’s meeting with a preview of the annual Dean’s report, which will survey FAS’ financial data for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008. The report—whose release had been delayed from this past spring to early October—will outline information concerning FAS finances for fiscal year 2009 as well, Smith said at a May faculty meeting...
...Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu...
...thinking on Jewish sex,” Ruttenberg said of her book. “I just sort of convened the conversation.” The book, a compendium of essays from leading Jewish and non-Jewish academics on topics ranging from masturbation to modesty, was published in June by New York University Press. Yet despite the academic credentials of the authors who penned most of the book’s essays, Ruttenberg said that she designed The Passionate Torah with “the intelligent lay reader in mind.” “The whole idea...