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...spot at NYU’s Stern School of Business. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that NYU offered Shleifer something to the tune of half a million dollars to defect, though the article failed to mention if that was an annual salary figure or a hefty lump sum. When he turned down the offer that year, the then-chair of the Economics Department, Oliver S. Hart, wrote to The Crimson that he was “delighted” that Shleifer would stick around, and many of his colleagues told The Crimson that they were relieved to hold onto...
...stem-cell research in 2004, Spain invested j150 million in a 32,000-sq-m research center in Valencia. The European Union has given a total of j11.9 million to 13 stem-cell research centers in eight countries over four years, and, in July, authorized an additional but unspecified sum from its j54.5 billion research budget for 2007-2013. That in turn has prompted municipal authorities in places like London and North Rhine Westphalia, Germany, to recruit managers to coordinate stem-cell research and development so their economies can benefit from potential breakthroughs in the estimated $56 billion market...
...goals and come down to Candaday B basement before prejudging and dismissing our efforts. We will not be a “dark basement office with a bunch of pamphlets” as was cynically suggested earlier this year. We will, like every organization at Harvard, be the sum total of those who take part in our programs, offer us feedback, and join in our effort to create community...
...Jared prepared to apply. Even though an official at Jared’s own high school acknowledged that the scion’s GPA and SATs didn’t merit Harvard admission, he nonetheless won a spot in the Class of ’03. In sum, the examples of admissions-for-donations quid-pro-quos in Golden’s book amount to many millions of dollars in revenue for Harvard. If the University did away with legacy preferences and development admits, it would watch a weighty wad of cash go away as well...
...Andrew Sum, a sociologist at Northeastern University who studies youth in the workforce, has a bleaker explanation: traditional jobs for youths are disappearing. As immigrants and oldsters crowd the market for jobs flipping burgers or packing groceries, teens are getting squeezed. In 1978, 61% of kids aged 16 to 19 worked; in 2005, it was 40%. Sum's data does not include internships...