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...trillion (and climbing) in foreign exchange reserves. But at $3 billion, the Blackstone investment is really just a drop in the bucket, while the economy-slowing moves on Friday may on balance serve to increase China's ongoing trade deficit by depressing its appetite for imports. Taken together, they signal Beijing's conviction that only ever-so-slow changes to the status quo are acceptable...
Under their proposal, a television signal would be received by a satellite dish on a dormitory roof, transmitted to a converter box in the basement, and then sent via existing electrical wires to individual rooms...
...plan is implemented, students who choose to pay for television would plug a small box into a power outlet in their room. An Ethernet cord would then transmit the signal to a computer or another box that connects to a television...
37signals isn't shy about dispensing one thing without charge: advice to small-business owners. On the company blog, Signal vs. Noise, Fried shares what he's learned about the art of streamlined teamwork with more than 65,000 readers. First, kill all your meetings; they waste employees' time. "Interruption is the biggest enemy of productivity," he says. "We stay away from each other as much as we can to get more stuff done." Use asynchronous communication and software instead to exchange information, ideas and solutions. Next, dump half your projects to focus on the core of your business...
...federal budget, and several tax rules are undergoing review,” Gaine wrote in an e-mailed statement. Gaine, a Harvard Law School graduate, also warned that Harvard’s students could see the repercussions of these committee discussions, although he doubts these talks “signal an immediate change.” If legislation does indeed result from these talks, “it would have an adverse impact on income flows for Harvard and other universities and make it difficult to manage operations without raising tuition,” he said. Although Harvard has taken...