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...users to vote on possible changes to the Web site’s terms of service. In a post on the company’s blog on Thursday, Facebook CEO and founder Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06-’07 explained that if more than 30 percent of Facebook’s 200 million active users voted on the proposals, all of Facebook’s future amendments would go through the same voting process. Users have been given the option to either maintain Facebook’s current terms of service or to amend the document...
Boston Public Health officials maintain that even with proper immunization, there is still a 10-20 percent chance of infection...
According to the Boston Globe, officials at Northeastern say that “99 percent” of its students have also received the required vaccination as mandated by Massachusetts law. The University is offering free shots to the remaining one percent on campus...
...Under the current 10-percent plan, families earning $180,000 pay just $18,000 per year. For the next few years, we can justifiably ask these upper-income families to kick in a bit more—say, $22,000 or 12 percent. Scaling back half of the newest initiative, which was projected to cost $22 million but will likely cost significantly more, would leave our financial aid program between where it was at the end of the Summers presidency (very good) and where it is now (extraordinarily generous...
...Things quickly got ugly. In a poll on Facebook’s website, 94 percent of voters were against the new design. Even Facebook employees apparently were dissatisfied, leading Zuckerberg to send an internal email saying that companies shouldn’t listen to their customers...