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...contrast to Beecham's somewhat orthodox business model, the Yotel is downright radical, attempting to pack guests into much smaller spaces than Western consumers usually encounter. Woodroffe says he was influenced by Japan's capsule hotels, which feature rooms little bigger than the sleeping compartments on trains. Yotel's "pod rooms" will offer a bit more space than Japanese-style cocoons. Still, they're not for the claustrophobic. The largest are just 10.5 sq m, though they're tall enough for even the most statuesque of guests to stand up in. Also jammed into that space: tiny workstations...
...Committee on College Life for nearly a year, where he observed the financial troubles that plague many student groups. Understanding that funds for student groups are limited, Anene still feels reluctant to condemn the student body in its ambitious attempts to expand the somewhat stagnant environment of extracurricular life at Harvard...
...woman) of letters; corporate titans have been consciously excluded—including from the list of honorary degree recipients. Since 1950, the only corporate leader to address departing graduates has been IBM president Thomas Watson Jr. in 1981. In light of this, Gates’ selection is somewhat of an anomaly...
Unfortunately, grant requests are somewhat unpredictable. The largest packages tend to be at the beginning of the semester, but the amounts requested fluctuate from week to week and year to year. The solution, therefore, is to develop a flexible budget—not for FiCom to throw up its hands and refuse to manage its money at all. It could, for example, allocate a weekly target and set aside a small surplus fund to cover particularly large packages. Or, it could use a monthly budgeting scheme to allow for particularly high and low weeks...
...Like the three-year-old Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), the department will be focusing in large part on stem-cell biology. But the new department will have a somewhat different purview, including the instruction of undergraduates...