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...good news for shareholders in the likes of BP and Shell. But results like these can rankle consumers caught up in a cooling economy as gas prices at the pump steadily rise. Little wonder that results like these aren't trumpeted these days, but rather carefully explained. Record profit announcements from major energy firms are nothing new; those inflated oil prices have triggered a string of them in recent months. But the slowdown currently underway in the U.K., for instance, "puts a bigger onus on these companies to explain lucidly what exactly that means," says Simon Webley, research director...
Harvard Medical School formally transferred ownership of Harvard Medical International (HMI)—the school’s non-profit consulting subsidiary—on Friday to Partners HealthCare, a company that owns several major Massachusetts hospitals. The new entity will be known as Partners Harvard Medical International until 2012, after which the Harvard name will be dropped. News of the deal was first reported in January, with word that it would close by mid-March. “The transfer of HMI to Partners HealthCare will help Harvard Medical School in focusing its international activities on its central...
...well the college prepares students to live in an environmentally conscious world—will be applied to 600 schools this year. The rating, produced on a scale of 60 to 90, is formulated from 28 survey questions designed to judge these three environmental factors. EcoAmerica, a non-profit environmental organization, helped develop the questionnaire for the Princeton Review and collect the data from the 2007-2008 academic year. “It’s in everybody’s best interest to be more committed to ecology,” Director of Public Relations for the Princeton Review...
...Mattison says the neighbors are not the only ones who could profit from a partnership...
...part of a U.S. aid project called Plan Colombia. Begun in 2000, the plan has cost more than $5 billion, making Colombia the fourth largest recipient of U.S. aid, after Iraq, Israel and Egypt. The plan is designed to combat both cocaine production and groups like the FARC that profit from the trade. Although Colombia has failed to stem cocaine production, the cash has at the very least helped rebuild Colombia's military, which in turn has knocked the FARC back on its heels. The rebels have seen their ranks of almost 20,000 fighters halved in the past five...