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...technology has long existed to do so, she says, "They never really had to compete in this space, so there wasn't the need." But as prices come down (on April 23, TomTom reported that its average product price had fallen 42% over the past year to $185 per unit) and as the number of GPS device manufacturers increases, companies are scrambling for ways to differentiate their wares...
...only gets worse: current trends suggest inflation will spiral even further out of control in the upcoming months. Inflation represents only one of the problems of the country. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Zimbabwe has had negative GDP growth rate for the past decade, with GDP per capita falling by 40 percent in the past seven years. During the same time Zimbabwe has experienced a 51 percent drop in agricultural output, a 47 percent fall in industrial production, and a 35 percent decline in resources output. The alarming warning signs of the late 1990s led foreign investors...
...Harvard students that ensures at least one-third of participants belong to the Harvard community.Although the report is mostly comprised of productive sound policy, we feel obligated to voice concern over two specific recommendations of the draft report. The first is the limit of large events to only two per day. While there is a caveat in the report that suggests relaxing the limit on specific weekends like Harvard-Yale and prefrosh weekend, we feel that flexibility should be the rule, and not the exception. Administrators validate this restriction by pointing out that few weekends have more events than would...
...organization devoted to stop the slaughter of animals, in vitro meat has obvious appeal. Despite efforts from activists, meat consumption continues to grow at home and abroad. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has reported that from 1970 to 2005 US meat consumption increased 12.3 percent to 200 lbs per person per year. The U.N. similarly predicts that global meat consumption will double by 2050. To any observer, the prospect of ridding the population of carnivores appears rather bleak. Therefore, PETA has decided to follow a time-honored path: if you can’t beat them, co-opt them...
Seventy percent of the gift will be devoted to international programs, and the remaining portion will be used to fund arts programs, The Times reported. Harvard will not receive the $100 million until Rockefeller's death but will receive $2.5 million per year until then, meaning that the total value of the donation could end up being well over $100 million...