Word: putnam
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...Both Stanfeld Professor for International Peace Robert Putnam and Skocpol say they believe involvement with one's community--on all the different levels of community--extends far beyond volunteer work...
...Skocpol along with Putnam also warns of the dangers of entirely divorcing community service and political involvement...
Thanks in part to the publicity surrounding Comet Hale-Bopp and other heavily hyped celestial events, "light pollution went from a nonissue to something that's on everyone's mind," says Maryann Arrien, a documentary-film maker and an amateur astronomer in Putnam Valley, N.Y. Efforts to curb light pollution are under way from the Australian Outback to Britain's Sherwood Forest, according to the International Dark-Sky Association (I.D.A.), which boasts 3,600 members in 70 countries...
PROTECTION PLAN Putnam Investments is offering insurance on its mutual funds against a stock slump and your untimely death. If you should expire when the market is down, your beneficiaries will still receive a decent payout. Let's say that at 67 you have a $100,000 investment, and in a year it grows to $150,000. For a 0.3% fee, you can each year lock in at the current account value so that if the stock drops, say to $120,000 the following year--and you drop--your heirs will still get $150,000. If you're under...
...Harvard is fine, it creates a lot of business in all things because of Harvard people have more jobs," says Sylvester Mabry, who lived in the area for years until the mid-1980s and now works at the Charlesbank Cleansing store at 151 Putnam...