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...Sciences and the available pool, and the Verba Report called for a stepped-up effort to recruit women scholars, Radcliffe appointed a president that believes that there is a small pool of qualified women scholars, and that this small pool is "a significant factor" in Harvard's low rate of tenure for women faculty...
African elephants have been slaughtered at an alarming rate over the past decade, largely because they are the primary source of the world's ivory. Their population has dwindled from 1.3 million in 1979 to just 625,000 today, and the rate of killing has been accelerating in recent years because many of the older, bigger-tusked animals have already been destroyed. "The poachers now must kill three times as many elephants to get the same quantity of * ivory," explains Curtis Bohlen, senior vice president of the World Wildlife Fund...
Annuities are like nondeductible IRAs, only without the $2,000 annual limit. With this one, Amex was offering to charge my card anywhere from $50 to $3,000 a month, at my option, and to pay me interest on my monthly contributions at a 12% "introductory rate" through June of next year. Thereafter the rate would be "set above a nationally recognized interest index plus 1.5%." I was all set to sign up, when I noticed...
...come-on is trivial over the long pull; it is designed to cloud your judgment. The true rate on this deal is the "nationally recognized interest index plus 1.5%" that Amex talks about. But a footnote reveals this to be an index of short-term, tax-free bonds, the lowest-yielding animals...
...this rate, according to the Washington-based Population Reference Bureau, a private data-gathering organization, Italy's population will decline from today's 57.6 million to 55.9 million by the year...