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...real estate asset classes," says Raj Inamdar, chief investment officer at SRM Realty Advisors in New Delhi. China, where construction of commercial and residential projects has been especially rampant, may be facing "an imminent bust of a real estate bubble," Merrill Lynch warned in a September report. A recent survey of households by China's central bank found only 13% were planning to buy property, the lowest figure since the survey started in 1999. In the wealthy industrial city of Shenzhen, reports suggest property prices may have fallen 30% from recent highs...
Firearms per 100 civilians (SOURCE: SMALL ARMS SURVEY...
...originally from Waterbury, Conn., is a history concentrator in Kirkland House and the editor emeritus of The Harvard Salient. “Conservative” in habit and disposition, but not in ideology, his column, “Modernity and Its Discontents,” will critically survey the absurdities and excesses of the postmodern Academy on alternate Mondays...
...corallimorph, an aggressive creature similar to anemones and coral, killed almost all the coral growing around a long-line fishing vessel that sank in 1991, according to a report published in August in the journal PLoS One by Thierry Work, a wildlife-disease specialist at the U.S. Geological Survey, and his colleagues. The corallimorph were probably attracted to the leaching iron, a valuable nutrient in the sea, says Work. Since the organism, which sparsely populates other parts of the reef, grows fast, is aggressive and reproduces in three different ways, it outcompeted other marine life on the reef...
Harvard students aren’t used to getting anything lower than a 4.0. But the College scored just a 3.2 on the third annual Trojan Sexual Health Report Card, released yesterday. The survey was sponsored by the makers of Trojan condoms and conducted by Sperling’s BestPlaces, an independent research firm. The report card graded and ranked 139 colleges based on 13 criteria, including sexual assault programs, availability of contraceptives, and student peer groups. Harvard’s ranking fell from 10th place last year to 25th. Trojan and Sperling’s BestPlaces did not release...