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...Sabanci Dinçer has little patience for such squabbling. Turkey has some critical tasks ahead, she says, including attracting international investment into new manufacturing projects, in order to provide jobs for its young population. The median age of Turkey's 71 million population is under 30, and millions of youngsters will be needing jobs in the future. She's more supportive of the government than many of her peers, but says the political fighting "made us lose time. It scared away some foreign investment. It's bad for the business climate, and I'm sure it affected consumers. Hopefully...
Chief Dull Knife College is small--only 141 full-time students, although a few hundred more attend workshops or study part time. The median age is in the upper 20s; some students have worked to raise money for college, while others needed time to deal with addiction and, in some cases...
Crossing the bay, the wetlands are dotted with a sofa here, a plastic garbage can there and suddenly along the causeway, a flotilla of beached, battered boats appears, awkwardly stuck in the median, wedged against highway signs, land-bound, askew and sad. Capturing the wholesale destruction of a hurricane is difficult. We learned that with Hurricane Katrina where the images, no matter how awful, were insufficient measured against the reality. The most overpowering sensation is the smell, a stench that seems to imprint itself on the brain's memory bank, suddenly wafting back hours after you have left the scene...
...significant economic impact on inner-city residents struggling financially, says Tricia Rose, a professor at Brown University's Department of Africana Studies and the author of the forthcoming book The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop - And Why It Matters. The average median household income in Riviera Beach is about $10,000 lower than that in the rest of the country, and the city's per capita violent-crime rate is higher than the city of Miami's, according to 2007 FBI figures released this month...
...that it had managed a 3.2 percent return over the past year. Its endowment now totals $10.1 billion. The largest higher educational endowment to announce a loss so far, the University of Pennsylvania, dropped 3.9 percent on the year. But the Philadelphia school still bested the negative 4.4 percent median return of 165 peer institutions, as measured by the Trust Universe Comparison Service. While these returns pale in comparison to the consistent double-digit returns posted by the wealthiest university endowments over the past few years, they remain robust in light of the worst financial downturn in decades?...