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...Cubans are paid in Cuban pesos while goods must be purchased at high prices in “convertible” pesos, keeping daily essentials out of reach. Ration cards, which Cubans have to pay for, provide scarce allotments of basic goods, such as two rolls of toilet paper per month. Possessing red meat is illegal, and killing a cow will result in four to 10 years in prison. These are just some examples of the unabashed disregard for human rights that prevailed during Castro’s dictatorship and that we can expect to be carried on by Raul...
...Ivies and has a chance to secure the nation’s first bid to this season’s NCAA Tournament with a win tonight against Dartmouth. The Big Red is led by a pair of sophomores, Ryan Wittman and Louis Dale, who average 15.5 and 12.7 points-per-game, respectively. Adam Gore, the 2005-2006 Ivy League Rookie of the Year, rounds out a trio that has carried Cornell to the top of the league and earned the Big Red a vote in the AP’s Top 25 poll on Feb. 18.Harvard...
Harvard’s $34.9-billion endowment is the largest in the nation, though Princeton University—with $15.8 billion—has a larger endowment-per-student ratio...
...travel, U.S. electricity reliability is made more daunting by the nation's enormous size and its myriad geographical and climatic challenges, from mountains to hurricanes. That, says Makovich, is another big reason the U.S. has significantly higher rates of power loss than countries like France (only 53 minutes lost per year on average) or the Netherlands (only 29 minutes) - and why it may still have higher loss rates even after the big investments are finished. "Florida can be troublesome as a peninsular power system," he adds, with few neighboring systems to tie into and big exposure to tropical heat...
...Ohio, even good news has dark shadows. The local Whirlpool plant employs about 4,000 people and produces 23,000 clothes dryers per day, but it's nonunion. "It takes a while before you're making $30,000 a year there," Hughes told me. "Hard for us to give mortgages to people making so little." But it's not hard for predatory lenders. The mayor of Marion, Scott Schertzer, told me that "we've gone from 57 foreclosures 10 years ago to more than 500 last year...