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...Both are 6-megapixel cameras that shoot a speedy two and a half frames per second, and use only SD memory cards. Both come with lenses (for $100 more, the D50 also comes with an 18-55mm starter zoom lens). Both are compatible with many of Nikon's pricier pro lenses as well. The D50 has two LCD screens. One is a two-inch, 130,000-pixel, color display for reviewing shots and viewing menu options. The other is a little always-on monochrome display that shares quick facts, like your flash setting or the number of shots remaining...
...Harvard’s—when Buffett’s pledge of $31 billion is realized, will direct the money toward promoting global health and development, according to its Web site. To accommodate the new schedule, the foundation will ramp up its payout, aiming to spend $3.5 billion per year beginning in 2009 and continuing through the decade, as compared to $1.3 billion spent last year, according to its Web site. It has committed itself to grants totaling $11 billion in its seven years of existence thus far. The Gates Foundation has already given millions to fund global health...
...debate over the gift tax, however, is about more than a mere $15,000 per year (the total cost of a 15 percent tax at last year’s withdrawal levels). It is also a symbolic fight against the rapidly eroding interest in student life within University Hall...
...College would fund the board with a $200,000 budget, the UC continued its restructuring process with an extensive debate over the future of the CLC. Eventually, the council voted to abolish the committee and accordingly reduce the size of the council to two, rather than three, representatives per district. The new “2x2” council, as Haddock termed it during last semester’s debate, began its inaugural session with the UC’s most competitive and highest-turnout general election, according to UC Treasurer Benjamin W. Milder ’08. Because...
...Kahl contrasts the Iraq war with prior counter-insurgencies in which the U.S. has been involved, and comes away impressed. In Vietnam, for example, he writes that the number of civilians killed per month was nine times higher than in Iraq. "Even if the estimates for Iraq are off by a factor of two or three," Kahl writes, "the conflict's casualty count is far lower than that in previous U.S. counterinsurgency campaigns...