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...Harvard announces that for the first time in six years it has fallen short of projected investment returns from its multibillion-dollar endowment. Overall, Harvard's endowment investments earn 12.2 percent in the last year, seven percentage points less than the goal set by Harvard's money managers...
...ecosystem's intricate, interdependent webs of life are hard to restore once they have become frayed. The U.S. is learning this lesson in its multibillion-dollar effort to halt the decline of the Everglades, the "river of grass" that once covered 4,500 sq. mi. (11,700 sq km) in Florida. Having spent much of this century channeling, damming and diverting Everglades water for urban and agricultural use, state and federal politicians have watched with growing alarm as these alterations threw the ecosystem into a tailspin. Wading-bird populations have plummeted; sport and commercial fish catches have fallen...
...these private suits are pending, the pressure will remain on the industry to show they are changing for the better." And what's a few new labels and age restrictions, cigarette makers may figure, if they help stanch a judge and jury's urge to dole out another multibillion-dollar award...
...wrestling is a business; it's an art; it's a pain. "The more you hurt each other," says veteran Terry Funk, "the more money you make." Funk is one of the stars of this straightforward documentary about a multibillion-dollar, sado-spectacular "sport." Blaustein, co-writer of Eddie Murphy's Coming to America and The Nutty Professor, puts no comic spin on his love of wrestling, but he does get his beefy athlete-artistes to reveal themselves as dedicated, complicated, twisted souls--like any other actors. They know that their punishment is our pleasure...
...might not think that a multibillion-dollar deal between two European banks would affect your own (considerably more modest) financial situation. But it just might. Thursday, Germany's Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank announced plans to join in a "merger of equals" to form Deutsche Bank AG. The new company's total assets will be valued at a jaw-dropping $1.3 trillion, making it one of the largest financial institutions in the world. Not surprisingly, those profits won't be scraped together from the holdings of the average Helmut's personal bank account; the merger announcement included a plan...