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Harvard’s latest bond sale brought the school’s outstanding debt to $6.5 billion dollars, a debt load comparable to that of the city of Chicago. Proceeds from the sale—which attracted a mix of investors including high net worth individuals, hedge funds, and insurance companies—will be used to fund a building project at the Law School and to refinance previously issued University debt...
...share of the cost of the new patients over the first two years and up to 95% after that. But states would still face an enormous new financial obligation. There is also the question of finding enough providers to care for 15 million new patients. "It is a huge load on the states at a time when we are still climbing out of the recession," Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen said this week in Nashville. His state - already facing $1.5 billion in budget cuts this year and next - has estimated that the Senate version would cost it an additional $735 million...
Biologists offer this analogy as an explanation: if the genome is the hardware, then the epigenome is the software. "I can load Windows, if I want, on my Mac," says Joseph Ecker, a Salk Institute biologist and leading epigenetic scientist. "You're going to have the same chip in there, the same genome, but different software. And the outcome is a different cell type...