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...endowment's 23-percent gain was fueled largely by rapid growth in emerging markets, private equity, and real estate, according to Mohamed A. El-Erian, the president and CEO of Harvard Management Company, the University’s investment...
...accompanied by dwindling sturgeon stocks. Experts estimate that sources of caviar have fallen by more than 90% since the late 1970s because of overfishing. The supply crunch looks set to get worse as a ban intended to replenish the stocks of the depleted Caspian sea, which supplies about 90 percent of the world's caviar, was rescinded earlier this year to the outrage of environmentalists...
...realized that city kids have road smarts of their own. Few natives would pull the kind of moves I have in New York this summer, such as taking the subway deep into Brooklyn instead of uptown by myself at two a.m., or accidentally tipping a cab driver 200 percent because I forked over the wrong bill...
...There is general agreement, however, that foreigners seem to have more trouble with 'shrooms that the Dutch themselves do. In Amsterdam, some 90 percent of ambulance dispatches related to magic mushroom use this year were for foreign visitors, especially from Britain, trailed at a distance by Italy, the U.S. and France. "Most problems are caused by foreigners who come here on cheap flights to take as many drugs as they can find," says Guy Boels, chairman of VLOS, an association of Dutch magic mushrooms retailers. "They hardly sleep, they drink alcohol and smoke pot as much as they...
...report reveals particularly stark disparities in diversity for faculty hiring and retention of tenured faculty. Women comprise less than a quarter of tenured faculty members in 10 of 13 faculty populations assessed and minorities claim fewer than 15 percent of tenured professors in 11 of 13 faculties...