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...debit account that students can access with a swipe of their ID card—because the UC wants to ensure that the allotted sum will go “specifically toward printing,” according to UC member Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10.Schwartz co-sponsored the legislation with representatives Alyssa Q. Colbert ’10 and Tom D. Hadfield ’08.The potential transition would not be too difficult to implement because “the technology infrastructure is already in place,” said Schwartz, who had contacted the Faculty of Arts...
...anyone who tries to keep track of which foods provide which health benefits, life seemed a little more complicated this morning. The first major analysis of nutritional research found the science to be every bit as susceptible to sponsor bias as pharmaceuticals. In a paper published online Tuesday in PloS Medicine researchers from Children's Hospital Boston report that when studies linking beverages to health are funded entirely by industry, the conclusions are four to eight times more likely to support the sponsor's commercial interest than studies with no industry funding. And the implications of the findings, says senior...
While some firms, like PC maker Dell, are still willing to sponsor major reforestation initiatives, others aren't taking chances. HSBC steered clear of trees when it successfully offset 170,000 tons of its emissions for the last quarter of 2005 through investments in renewable energy projects. "However many trees we planted around the world, we could not keep up [with global CO2 output]", says Francis Sullivan, the bank's environment adviser. HSBC looks, he says, for more efficient uses of its money, such as its investment in a wind farm in New Zealand. Tree planting, Sullivan says...
...Sciences and for his now-infamous remarks about the intrinsic aptitude of women in science. Summers announced his resignation in February, days before the Faculty was set to vote on a second no-confidence motion. Summers lost the first 218-185. An outspoken critic of Summers and the sponsor of the second no-confidence vote, Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, wrote in an e-mail that she was not surprised by BusinessWeek’s ranking. “Leadership, in the sense of being persuasive enough to motivate others...
...Paulson's problem is compounded by the fact that the clock is ticking. With a new Democrat-run Congress due to open for business in January, he may not even have months. One of the most powerful Democratic voices in the Senate will be that of Charles Schumer, co-sponsor of a temporarily postponed bill that would impose heavy tariffs on Chinese products if Beijing doesn't allow the renminbi to rise from what Schumer and others say is its current artificially low level against the dollar. Paulson may remind the Chinese, also, that the new Speaker of the House...