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...International Serial Book Numbers) to compare prices from online vendors with university bookstore prices. Under the terms of the agreement, no matter how much money Crimson Reading makes this semester, $3,000 will go to the charity that Crimson Reading has sponsored since its inception. After operating costs, 60 percent of any additional revenue will go to BrunoBooks, according to Jesse Maddox, one of the founders of BrunoBooks. Maddox said the new Crimson Reading site will list the Coop’s prices for new and used copies of a textbook alongside online vendors’ prices, and listed prices...
...accessible as possible, and more insurance companies should include it in their coverage plans. Some people also object to the time the three-part process takes. Even if it is slightly time-consuming, all of the vaccine’s benefits make the inconvenience worth it. At least 50 percent of sexually active people will have HPV at some point in their lives. Even if it is an imposition, men should receive the HPV vaccine in addition to women. Individuals have an obligation to help eradicate disease, even if it is only in others. The lives the HPV vaccine will...
Harvard spent $1.6 billion from its endowment to support University operations this year, an increase of nearly 25 percent over the previous years. Nevertheless, unprecedented growth in the size of the endowment meant that the University still spent less than five percent of its accumulated wealth, the number that Harvard claims is its goal. Payout rates have become a hotly debated issue in higher education in the last year as Senator Charles E. Grassley, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, began attacking what he saw as “hoarding” among schools with large and fast...
Harvard’s money managers announced that the endowment grew 8.6 percent in the year ending June 2008, outpacing both internal and industry benchmarks in a year of historic market turmoil. The returns bring the largest endowment in higher education to $36.9 billion from $34.9 billion last year. The fact that the endowment only increased by 5.7 percent was due to the highest spending from the endowment in Harvard history. The stellar returns were fueled in part by steep increases in commodity prices in areas such as oil, metals, and food. While Harvard invests only 8 percent...
...indeed the octogenarian leader of 28 years has had a change of heart, the resulting breakthrough could open the possibility of foreign aid flowing into the country, whose shattered economy has lately seen inflation top 2 million percent. But the international community, like many Zimbabweans, may wait to see whether the new deal actually ends the political violence that has become a trademark of Mugabe's regime...