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Harvard professors are currently the highest paid in the country, according to a report by the American Association of University Professors. When compounded with the level of prestige attendant to professorship here, most professors are deeply contented to be on the faculty of Harvard University. Similarly, many students are already eager to earn a graduate degree here; providing extra incentives need not be our priority right now. While the goal of preserving the quality of teaching and research at Harvard is an essential one, these raises will have little impact. Instead, Dean Smith should have directed FAS funds toward returning...
...that her election gives momentum toward qualified, experienced and politically savvy gay candidates running for public office," he wrote on the political blog Burnt Orange. Gay candidates have won a seat on the Fort Worth city council and as sheriff in Dallas. Gay candidates must work at the local level, Hill says, building a record and political bench. "If you want to really make a mark and move elements of the LGBT agenda forward, get members of our community elected into positions of political power," Hill urged...
Proponents hail this remote corner of New Mexico as an ideal location for a spaceport: the weather is dry and clear year round, and at 4,500 ft. above sea level, jokes Steve Landeene, the spaceport's executive director, "the first mile is free." Physicist Robert Goddard developed modern rocketry here in the 1930s; in 1947, a mysterious object crashed to earth outside Roswell, making the town synonymous with UFO conspiracy theories. Thanks to the restricted airspace over the neighboring White Sands Missile Range and Holloman Air Force Base, there's also hardly any commercial air traffic. (Watch an interview...
...that students in difficult family situations can catch a few hours' sleep, and the doctor who flouts insurance regulations in order to prescribe medicine for an entire household. All see their behavior as necessary and moral acts of conscience. As one subject says, "Sometimes you just have to level the playing field a little...
...with consumer debt seems to be coming, at least for now, to a screeching halt because of the realities of the Great Recession. Belt-tightening, whether it's imposed by job loss or financial insecurity, is de rigueur. The savings rate is 4.4%, up from its 2007 rock-bottom level. Book publishers are hurrying to catch up with the rediscovered restraint. Three authors with new books are eager to restore fiscal conservatism to its proper, vaunted role. Being thrifty has become a badge of honor...