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...open letter in March, Bok wrote that the purpose of a university is not “to reform society in specific ways,” but to transmit knowledge and protect its financial stability. In his second letter in April, Bok doubted the effectiveness of divestment in promoting the end of apartheid, and supported the Corporation’s position that the best way for Harvard to influence corporate behavior was “to vote as a shareholder...
...letter pushes for Congress to address U.S. violence on Iraqi prisoners. It asks Congress to “promote a rule of law produced and enforced through a democratic process and to protect the physical and psychological integrity of all people consistent with the traditions of our nation...
Finding those drugs, however, won't be easy. Weight may be a single number, but it represents the sum of a bewildering network of overlapping metabolic pathways, all designed to protect the body from starvation by packing on as many pounds as possible. In addition, not everybody gains weight the same way, so a drug targeting one pathway will probably not work for all overweight people. "The whole feeding mechanism is a survival mechanism, and it is strongly defended for that purpose," explains Ken Batchelor of GlaxoSmithKline. "What we are attempting to do with pharmacology is to reverse that process...
PRESTON: There are cultural differences in play all over. Many of the reasons Europe lags the U.S. in venture investment are cultural. The average American works about 1,978 hours a year, vs. 1,525 for a European. Europe is trying to protect jobs by lowering hours. But reducing hours to create new jobs is a different approach than we have in America, where there is a rich tradition of taking on risk and trying to build new job-producing companies from scratch...
With wholesale prices rising briskly and consumer costs creeping up, investors are rushing to protect their money from inflation. This season's favorite hedge: Treasury inflation-protected securities, or TIPS, which do what their name suggests and provide great portfolio diversification to boot. The bad news is that investors have been clamoring for TIPS so enthusiastically that they have bid up prices, making TIPS less attractive for the time being...