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...program in any way, saying that the participation rate speaks for itself. He also declined to comment on the costs or savings achieved by the program, but noted that it was primarily funded through assets set aside for the University's defined-benefit pension plan.Harvard's financial report for fiscal year 2008 showed an apparent surplus of nearly $300 million in the University's pension-plan assets after subtracting away benefit obligations of roughly $600 million, suggesting that the University may have been able to pay for the retirement incentives without its increasing near-term costs.The Program...
...TIME's special report on paying for college...
...despite the pervasiveness of pregnancy-related nausea, there is still no easy treatment, since most expecting mothers and their doctors aren't keen on exposing a still developing fetus to medications. Now, researchers from Israel and Canada report in the New England Journal of Medicine that a commonly prescribed heartburn drug, which also has anti-nausea properties, may be used in pregnant women without causing harm to babies. (See safety issues about taking pills during pregnancy...
...This was not the first time Bongo had been exposed. In 1999, an investigation by the U.S. Senate into Citibank estimated that the Gabonese President held $130 million in the bank's personal accounts, money the Senate report said was "sourced in the public finances of Gabon." Earlier last decade, a French inquiry into the state-owned oil firm Elf-Aquitaine named Bongo as the beneficiary of millions of dollars in slush funds. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...years ago to ask if she was interested in running. But when she asked for permission from then-executive editor Joseph Lelyveld ’58, he said it would be a conflict of interest for her to take part in confidential discussions while being obligated to report to the Times, which covers Harvard...