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Similar problems of "institutional lag" are found in the organization of research in the University. Harvard's policy of "each tub on its own bottom," in which each faculty manages its own budget, and even "each tublet on its own bottom," in which various centers and institutes are on their own in fund-raising and budgeting, makes a lot of sense for administration and for turning the faculty into mini-fundraisers. But it probably doesn't best serve intellectual life at the University. It seriously shortchanges the cross-disciplinary and cross-faculty enterprises, and dramatically underutilizes the potential of international...
This virtual visit is one way for Ashton and her mom--who have been separated by thousands of miles since Kaleita-Sniderman divorced, remarried and moved to Ohio--to communicate. The transmission isn't perfect. Lips move. Words lag behind, like a badly dubbed-in translation in a foreign movie. An eerie whistling sound seeps in and out of the audio, and the camera doesn't catch details in Ashton's many works of art. Her brilliant yellow clay dragon with jewel-like eyes and feather wings is a gray blob on the computer screen. But to Ashton, the videoconference...
ARRIVAL TIME IS MONEY Amid last year's record flight delays, biztravel.com began compensating customers for jet lag on six airlines. The payout policy--$100 for 30-min. delays, $200 for an hour and a full refund after two--boosted sales 50%. But playing airline roulette has cost the site $1.7 million since May, so Biztravel recently shrank tardiness refunds 75%. (A $100 max is better than nothing.) Another plus? Automatic rebooking on cheaper flights so you can pocket the difference...
...Opponents, from Jimmy Carter (who first set aside the refuge) to just about every Democrat and environmentalist in town, say the five-year time pre-production lag makes this a bad response to a current energy pinch, and a short-term sellout of one of the last unspoiled places in the country. Massachusetts senator John Kerry has threatened to filibuster any bill that would permit drilling in the refuge...
During the tug of war so far, the pharmaceuticals and Western governments have prevailed. But increasingly, poor countries and AIDS advocates are finding ways to shift the balance. India and Brazil have vigorously exploited a time lag until international patent rules apply to them, manufacturing copies of AIDS drugs and selling them at deeply discounted prices. The practice opens the door for other countries to follow suit by taking advantage of a legal loophole in global-trade rules called compulsory licensing. In effect, it lets countries breach patents during national emergencies to manufacture generic versions of AIDS drugs...