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Erez Lieberman-Aiden has already invented the iShoe (footwear that can diagnose poor balance in the elderly) and the Hi-C (a method to decipher DNA’s three dimensional structure...
Jittery home shoppers have watched home prices plunge 30% on average from their mid-2006 peak, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, with some markets suffering price drops as deep as 70%. Many potential buyers are further frightened by economists and analysts who predict prices could fall another 5% to 10% before the sector bottoms out - and possibly worse if the country experiences a double-dip recession...
...other presidents have been heavily commemorated on campus,” said Michael D. Weishan ’86, president of the FDR Suite Foundation. “Poor Franklin was left alone...
...management style is not short on theatrical flourish. Four years ago, the Briton who is about to become the world's most powerful music industry executive, arrived late to the boardroom of Universal Music Group's international head office in London after the company had suffered a particularly poor sales period. As he entered, he turned off the lights, leaving his executive team sitting nervously in the dark. He then paced around the room until finally uttering the words: "See that. Better get used to it. That's what it's like when you don't have any hit records...
Washington agrees with this urgency. In 2007, the Bush Administration approved $750 million to be spent in the Northwest Frontier Province over the next five years to catapult the poor, lawless region into the 21st century, creating schools and jobs and repairing the battered civil society. But because of fears that there were no safeguards to keep corrupt officials from siphoning off the funds, and because much of the region has been off-limits to aid workers due to militancy, only a tenth of that amount has been spent. Nor can aid wait: the U.N. reckons that over 1.63 million...