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...June the 39 Clues team got a major boost: DreamWorks acquired the film rights, with Steven Spielberg planning to produce and direct. "The 39 Clues takes creative leaps to expand the story experience from the pages of the books to multiple stages of discovery and imagination," Spielberg said, in an uncharacteristically robotic statement. "We have the opportunity to develop this property that says 'film,' 'family,' 'fun' and 'franchise...
When Jobs, who battled pancreatic cancer four years ago and has been the subject of whispers of ill health since he appeared looking gaunt at the Macworld conference in June, took the stage today, it was in front of a giant slide that said, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated...
...Broad Institute—a hallmark of his governorship. One of the chief accomplishments of his first two years in office was the passage of an act that would invest $1 billion in stem cell and other biological research over the next decade. —Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu...
...understand more of what the senator is considering.” Harvard’s ballooning endowment has put it at the center of the school spending debate since Grassley and Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus first raised the issue last year. At $34.9 billion as of June 2007, Harvard boasts the largest endowment in higher education. Grassley has criticized colleges and universities for “hoarding” growing endowment returns instead of spending more on financial aid. But he did praise a slew of financial aid increases last year from the nation’s wealthiest...
...General David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, wanted to maintain the current force level through next June, but agreed to the modest troop reduction under pressure from Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They are eager to divert additional troops to Afghanistan, which can only happen if troops are pulled out of Iraq. Petraeus will soon inherit responsibility for overseeing both Afghanistan and Iraq when he becomes head of U.S. Central Command...