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Fathom is a for-profit online partnership of Columbia University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History and other institutions, and will offer online classes taught by prominent academics. The site launches this fall. CEO Kirschner envisions a scenario in which older adults will use Fathom courses to indulge lifelong passions and reinvent themselves for new careers. "It's as if, all of a sudden, everybody lives on a college campus," she says. "So many retirement communities are built near college campuses for just this reason. Now anyone, anywhere will...
...When my daughter first came home from preschool lousy and itching, I saw it as a good-news/bad-news scenario. On one hand we finally had that family of house pets we'd always wanted. Unfortunately, they were colonizing her head of beautiful, thick hair. Then they moved on to mine...
...attracted to online bartering. Bartering, as opposed to bidding, is a great alternative for wimps like me. As with auctions, I can post things I want to get rid of. But instead of exchanging money with strangers, I just trade my junk for someone else's. Worst-case scenario, I lose nothing but that CD I never listen to, that book I already read or those earrings I never wear...
...Fathom is a for-profit online partnership of Columbia University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History and other institutions, and will offer online classes taught by prominent academics. The site launches this fall. CEO Kirschner envisions a scenario in which older adults will use Fathom courses to indulge lifelong passions and reinvent themselves for new careers. "It's as if, all of a sudden, everybody lives on a college campus," she says. "So many retirement communities are built near college campuses for just this reason. Now anyone, anywhere will...
...kept rising--up 19% in the first six months and 36% for the full year. "The key was getting the Fed off the brakes as inflation expectations went south," says Thomas Galvin, chief investment officer at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Galvin is counting on stocks to replay their 1995-96 scenario. So he figures investors should put their money in the same sectors that did best then: health care and technology...