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...days ago. "Explain the title of this to me," he said. I said, "Daniel, forgive me, but I'm assuming you're a man. Is that correct?" He said yes. I said, "Tell me how old you are." He goes, "Twenty-three." I said, "You're not exactly my target audience." It's all about a woman's reproductive cycle and how we become fertile in terms of bearing children at a young age and then at a certain point in life we are no longer fertile in that sense. I think women can be at their most creative, their...
...need to set payout in a way that maximizes what we are able to do on a sustainable basis.” The program was launched in fiscal year 2006, while endowment returns were high and payout was falling consistently short of Harvard’s 5 percent target, leading University leaders to seek new methods to increase spending from the endowment. But the recent decision to continue accepting new projects comes amidst a dramatic decline in the value of the endowment, which has pushed the projected payout rate for next year to over 6 percent—the highest...
...future of weapons of mass destruction: "Now pointed at Japan, North Korea's missiles will one day target the United States and China. The missiles of Pakistan fallen into the hands of fundamentalists will threaten first India, then Europe. Those of Hezbollah - in other words, Iran - that now target Israel will one day be pointed at Cairo, Riyadh, Algiers, Tunis, Casablanca, Istanbul, then at Rome, Madrid, London and Paris. Should the battle lines harden and the country be threatened with annihilation, China's missiles could one day target Japan and the United States...
Such "prepo" shipments have always been well-guarded. But the ship's contents could make a very tempting target for the pirates. The manifest lists a cargo of missiles and bombs with a TNT equivalent or "net explosive weight" of 6,383,281 lbs - around a quarter of Hiroshima's A-bomb destructive power. It includes 11 containers holding 15,751 lbs of spontaneously flammable munitions like white phosphorous. In total around 80% of the cargo, or 1,300 containers, will be crammed with explosives. (See a brief history of pirates...
...match last year's, says Chocosuisse's Schmid. But some Switzerland-based chocolate producers are confident that the industry's immediate future is far from bleak. Lindt, makers of the iconic golden bunnies, predicts its 2009 sales are likely to increase by between 2 and 5% - short of its target of 6 to 8%, but still not bad in the current economy. While Nestlé, which manufactures, among other brands, Cailler and KitKat, is not releasing figures until the end of April, company chairman Peter Brabeck recently told Swiss newsmagazine Weltwoche that even amid a slacking consumer goods sector, chocolate...