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...increasing steadily over the past decade. While old-fashioned donations have declined recently due to the recession, online giving actually grew in 2009. One online charity portal, Network for Good, reported that the number of donations nearly doubled last year, and the dollar value of donations increased by 42 percent. However, trends in online giving, including cutting-edge methods like text-message donations, vary markedly from traditional non-profit donations, and their growing importance will have a significant effect on the quantity and character of charity worldwide, and not necessarily a positive...
...then allowed to regrow in patches. The result: individual stands of similar trees ranging from about 225 years old to just five. "You could do this experiment by measuring a single stand of trees as long as possible," says Parker, "but a scientific career lasts only a few percent of the life of a tree." This way, he explains, you have a snapshot of the same forest at different ages...
...presence of its second-leading scorer and leading rebounder—sophomore Keith Wright, who missed the game with Achilles tendonitis—the Crimson struggled to gain a presence in the paint and was forced to rely on its outside shooting. But the streaky Crimson shot just 36 percent from the field, posting its second-lowest offensive total of the season...
...letter to the community, Levin called for salary freezes for top administrators and a 2 percent cap on salary increases for faculty and staff. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will take a 10 to 15 percent reduction in the number of accepted students, and funding for research and undergraduate study abroad programs will also be affected...
...investigators found that serotonin levels were 26 percent lower in the tissue samples collected from infants that died from SIDS. The levels of tryptophan hydroxylase, an enzyme needed to make serotonin, were also 22 percent lower...