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...students as of last night, Hazlett said it would soon be updated to reflect the current tally of approximately 200 names. “My personal target for this is 1,000,” said Hazlett, expressing confidence that this year’s tally will surpass last year’s total.“We’re still in the phase of ramping up efforts,” Collins said. “It’s encouraging that even with minimal publicity, it’s taking...
...tradition of ice and snow sports and only started competing in the Winter Olympics in 1980, it won eight medals in Salt Lake City. At the halfway point in Torino, China had already secured six medals, including gold in women's short-track speedskating, and looks almost certain to surpass its 2002 record. This week's action includes several sports in which China has, in a decade, transformed itself from newbie competitor to gold-medal contender, including freestyle aerial skiing, speedskating and other short-track skating events. Its success in the ice rink serves as a global warning that China...
...much as those of the students who take advantage of lecture recordings to skip class. In the absence of recorded lectures, conscientious students are effectively penalized when they miss class for reasons such as illness. While recordings may lack some of the benefits of live lectures, they far surpass PowerPoint slides and borrowed lecture notes as study aids. Lecture videos have long been available online for some Harvard courses, but audio downloads have an additional advantage for students. As a cheaper alternative to video downloads, audio downloads allow smaller courses and departments to offer lectures online when the costs...
Convexity will use a nontraditional compensation structure in which Meyer and his colleagues will only receive their 20 percent performance fee if they surpass one of seven benchmarks chosen by an investor, AFX News reported...
...Angeles--based Capital Group Cos., zoomed past star-centric Fidelity Investments this year in total managed assets through September--$738 billion for American Funds, $716 billion for Fidelity. The company is on track next year to topple kingpin Vanguard ($774 billion), which rode the popularity of index funds to surpass Fidelity in 2003. American Funds has quietly become home to six of the 10 largest stock funds in the U.S.--including the biggest of them all, the $117 billion Growth Fund of America. More than $1 of every $3 plunked into a fund these days goes to American Funds. Vanguard...