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...Worse yet, Faust predicted continued gloom for the endowment, with a forecasted 30-percent drop for the fiscal year ending in June 2009. At the same time, current estimates call for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to make next year’s budget about $200 million thinner. In other words, add Mass. Ave. to the cliché about Wall Street and Main Street. Faust’s original letter sounded hopeful yet sober, and we feel the same. For all our complaints and cynicism, universities are in the business of helping people through constant growth?...
...point of reaching out, as he often does, to the Chinese people and explicitly compared himself to the student protesters of Tiananmen Square: "We are all equal in working for democracy." He was plain about his disappointment with their leaders: "My trust in the Chinese officials is becoming thinner and thinner." (See pictures of the Dalai Lama at home in Dharamsala...
...Also hitting the market are organic LEDs, or OLEDs, which are sure to render CRTs and LCDs obsolete once engineers overcome limits to size and longevity. They’re thinner and more energy efficient than LCDs and have a greater range of colors, including true black. The New York Times said Sony’s XEL-1 was like “looking out a window. With the glass missing.” OLEDs have much superior viewing angles, so that, unlike the typical laptop LCD screen, they won’t go dark when you turn your head...
...Waunakee, Wis., company started in 1976 by Oscar Meyer, of hot-dog fame. (The connection: pigs naturally produce proteins used in pharmaceuticals.) CZ-SPL makes a key ingredient, what in the pharmaceutical business is called an active pharmaceutical ingredient, or API, for a drug called heparin, a blood thinner that is widely used by kidney-dialysis and postsurgical patients to prevent blood clots. The team found little unusual and gave the facility a clean bill of health...
...Tibet's current place under the People's Republic of China and full independence. He now, however, views this "middle way" approach as having failed to produce "positive results," and he is therefore changing his course of action - by stepping back. "My trust in the Chinese government has become thinner, thinner, thinner," the Dalai Lama said to reporters on Monday, reiterating statements he has made over the past week that his faith in Beijing is waning. "I cannot take direct responsibility dealing with the Chinese government," he said. "If I say, 'I think this is better or that is better...