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...posited renewable energy as the definitive answer, citing a national proposal he had been working on with various Harvard faculty and staff over the past day and a half to shift America to 100 percent renewable energy within 10 years...
...blown in some ways—hit by widespread losses across the world in investment values,” Faust said, while her colleagues at the head table, many of whom appeared amused at other points in the meeting, sat grim-faced. Harvard’s endowment grew 8.6 percent during the year ending in June 2008, outpacing industry benchmarks, but financial data from the past few months—which have seen some of the most precipitous economic declines in decades—have not been made available. Faust said that the primary concerns about the situation were that...
...Health Alliance had already instituted a hiring freeze and cut back on discretionary spending in February, and is now in the midst of laying off roughly 300 workers—9 percent of its workforce...
...Health Alliance’s $40 million in cuts, when combined with other reductions in education and health care management, total almost $55 million—more than 10 percent of its budget. Together the two hospital systems will bear roughly 20 percent of the administration’s emergency cuts, according to Keefe’s letter...
...people are particularly vicious. "They are the most vulnerable people in the country," says Tony Taylor, a research associate at the National Coalition for the Homeless. "Over 1 in 4 attacks that are reported against the homeless end in murder. That's huge compared to one-tenth of a percent of other protected classes," he said, referring to categories of individuals currently protected under federal hate-crime legislation. These crimes typically include bias-motivated violence and intimidation against individuals based on their sexual orientation, race or religion. Being homeless and on the street is not one of the existing categories...