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...Ennis noted that the budget cuts do not apply to spending supported by research grants from federal or private sources, which total about 28 percent of the Medical School’s $798 million budget for fiscal year 2007. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...Brunot and Butts sold the game's rights to a company called Selchow & Righter. Butts received a total of $265,000 in royalties; Brunot got nearly $1.5 million. Coleco Industries Inc. took over after Selchow collapsed in the 1980s and when Coleco went bankrupt, Hasbro Inc. swooped in. In 1994, scandal rocked the Scrabblesphere when Hasbro announced plans to remove nearly 200 words deemed too offensive for the official Scrabble dictionary. The list of words ranged from ethnic slurs to playground phrases like "turd," "fart" and "fatso." Hasbro eventually compromised and published two officially sanctioned dictionaries - one for "recreational...
...contest with a second-place finish, while the divers left New Jersey with a solid eighth. GEORGIA INVITATIONAL The Harvard men’s swim team traveled south this past weekend, capturing a strong second-place finish in the Georgia Invitational. Harvard completed the three-day contest with a total of 688 points, falling only to the dominant home Bulldogs, who led the field with a score of 1407. The meet, which was held in a champion style and therefore consisted of both preliminary and final trials, proved to be a bit of a wake-up call for the Crimson...
...Ford or Chrysler went bust. That's because of a domino effect that would probably result in the subsequent failures of parts suppliers that also sell to factories operated by Toyota, Honda and Nissan in the U.S. Vehicles built on American soil accounted for 63% of Japan's total U.S. sales in 2007, according to the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association. A sudden parts shortage could force companies to shut down some of those assembly lines, generating major losses...
...It’s not that the United States is inept at punishing people. America has the largest total prison population in the world, and incarcerates people at rates four times higher than most other countries. Mandatory federal guidelines require a five-year sentence for a first-time offender individual caught with 500 grams of cocaine. But people balk at the idea of putting CEOs in prison. Obviously this is because having half a kilo of coke is much more damaging to the country as a whole than train wrecking the entire economy...