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...battery of news this past week illustrates the up-and-yet-down nature of the signals we're receiving. Consider that on Wednesday the Commerce Department reported that retail sales fell 0.4% between March and April. Yet at the same time, consumers expressed more confidence about the economy than they have since the fall, according to a much-watched survey released on Friday by Reuters and the University of Michigan...
...navigating this year’s tumultuous and markedly changed financial landscape. University officials say they have been planning for a total 30 percent drop in the endowment by the end of the current fiscal year.Despite an increase in public equity holdings to almost $772 million by March 31, up from $571 million in the previous quarter, the University has still dramatically reduced its publicly traded equities portfolio, which was valued at almost $2.9 billion as late as last September. Harvard appears to have redirected many of its investments after those sales, with the number of reported holding entries increasing...
...remind young people of our glorious history, history that is being forgotten," says Alexander Laveikin, a deputy director of the museum and one of the first cosmonauts to have lived aboard the Mir space station. Besides serving as a memorial to the past, the museum, which reopened in March, is also part of a government effort to get young Russians interested in science and technology. "If five or 10 years ago, everyone wanted to be in business, now they are interested in technology - and our museum is playing a big part in that," says Laveikin. "After the financial crisis ends...
...Mars - Russia's government has done more than just revamp its space museum. In 2007, it founded Rosnanotekh, the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation; last year, the government announced tentative plans to abandon its current space base in Kazakhstan and build a new one in the Russian far east; and in March, it launched an effort to design a new moon rocket. (See pictures of animals in space...
...Although the paper focuses on foreign military policy, there is also a significant domestic socioeconomic element that was missing from the 2000 version. The document itself was supposed to be released in March, but was delayed possibly for this very reason. Media speculation abounds that the hold-up was due to the Obama Administration's less aggressive policy towards Russia, which forced a rethink on the tone of the document. However, observers believe that specific socioeconomic benchmarks such as poverty, food costs and education were removed from the document - which had been in draft form for over a year...