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...most eagerly anticipated magazine issues of the year. Sports Illustrated (which, like TIME, is owned by Time Inc.) estimates that the franchise reaches some 66 million people, including 4 in 10 adult American men. As befits such a massive enterprise, the cover is a closely guarded secret; even the model featured on it isn't informed until the last minute. TIME caught up with this year's cover girl, Israeli model Bar Refaeli, just an hour after she found out. (See pictures of pinup queen Bettie Page...
...sale ($359) at the end of the month exclusively at Amazon, is almost half as thin (.36 inch) and more capacious (holds more than 1,500 books) than its predecessor, with a sleek, Apple-like aluminum back. While its six-inch screen is the same size as the former model and still cannot render color, it will now display16 shades of gray, versus 4 in the original. That should improve the crispness of text, images and photos. Amazon also claims the new Kindle's battery can hold a charge 25% longer than the 1.0 version, allowing it to putter along...
...course, the government hopes the aggregator bank model it is proposing, with private investors actually making the purchases, gets around the difficult job of having the government figuring out just what these bonds are worth. But it is not clear it will. Even if private investors name the prices, the government will still have to certify the values are reasonable before providing insurance or some other type of incentive to get the purchases complete, if it cares about not throwing more taxpayer money down the rat hole...
...Mendillo—a 15-year veteran of HMC and the former manager of Wellesley College’s endowment—wrote that Harvard had no plans to change the current allocations, which had been in place before her tenure began in July. “The business model at HMC—the internal platform combined with a selectively chosen external set—is the right one for our future,” she wrote. —Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...Experience shows that rejecting that model is both feasible and advantageous. A review of the effects of the Hyde Amendment by the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute found that it reduced the abortion rate of women on Medicaid by as much as 37 percent, with a negligible impact on maternal mortality. If you think such results are not replicable in the developing world, look at Nicaragua. In 2006, it adopted one of the strictest abortion laws in the world, yet in the following year it saw a 58-percent drop in its maternal mortality rate...