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...After years of poor management or bad luck, GM and Chrysler have reached the point where they are not viable as independent companies. They need U.S. aid whether they remain "solvent" or have to get court protection. Almost every American has seen that news on TV or read about it in the paper. It will be hard to imagine what consumers will think when they find out that a company which was the largest corporation in the U.S. for years is bankrupt. It is like finding out that the telephone company has gone out of business. (Perhaps people actually...
...paper offers new insight into an evolutionary conundrum posited in 1986 by Daniel Vining Jr. of the University of Pennsylvania in the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Vining pointed out that in contemporary societies, rich couples have the same number (and often fewer) kids than poor ones. The article suggested that human reproductive behavior was entirely learned, not inherited...
...teaches at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In a 2006 article in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, Hopcroft showed that after you account for children born to mistresses and second (or third, or fourth...) trophy wives, rich men do have more kids than poor men. And Kanazawa, in a 2003 Sociological Quarterly paper, noted that even if wealthy men don't have more kids within marriage, they have more sex partners total - and more sex with each partner - than poor...
...order to deliver the greatest benefit to at-risk populations in the developing world, OTD’s strategy focuses on two areas that act as force multipliers: infectious disease (the leading cause of preventable infant and child mortality in poor countries) and diagnostic technologies. A single dose of vaccine may confer upon its recipient a lifetime of immunity against a deadly infectious disease. A diagnostic test that can be adapted for use in a challenging field environment outside of the traditional “high-tech” clinical laboratory setting stands to deliver the greatest benefit...
...dollars in derivatives investments went sour—forcing the University to post collateral it did not have. The dire situation, the article said, forced Harvard to pay unfavorably high interest rates to raise the necessary funds.But other finance experts said the issuances were less the result of poor decision making in the past and more a reflection of the unpredictably volatile market in which it issued its debt. David Scudder, a former vice president at Harvard Management Company who now serves as chairman of Aureus Asset Management, said that December was not an easy month to issue any bonds...