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There are signs that Europe has awakened to the problem. On June 2, for instance, the University of Toulouse 1 inaugurated the Toulouse School of Economics, offering English-language graduate courses, thanks to $52 million in donations from corporate donors. A change in French law last year granted state-run institutions like Toulouse more autonomy, so such fund-raising efforts could become widespread in France. In Germany, where local governments have been free to levy tuition fees since 2005, federal and local governments have earmarked some $3 billion to promote excellence in research at selected universities through to 2011. Others...
...decision last November to quit when his five-year term ends in September 2009 means it's unlikely he ever will. But by orchestrating Oxford's mammoth $2.5 billion campaign, he'll have played no small part in increasing the university's competitiveness in the years to come. On June 18, the university pocketed a $50 million donation from Michael Moritz, a U.S.-based venture capitalist, one of its biggest ever. He has done his bit for the dreaming spires. For the remaining Oxford alumni out there, the question is: Have...
...fear the fate of these brave soldiers 20 years from now [June 16]. In 2002 my brother Bill, a combat infantryman decorated with three Bronze Stars, took his life on the 34th anniversary of his return home from Vietnam. He was proud of his service but said that in order to survive, he saw and did awful things he could never talk about. I don't know what the answer is, but posttraumatic stress disorder and depression have to be treated with more than a Band-Aid like Prozac. The Department of Veterans Affairs needs every dollar it gets...
...morning of June 9, Israel got into his GMC Envoy and drove 30 miles from his Westchester home to Bear Mountain Bridge. There, he left his car behind with the words “suicide is painless” scrawled in dust on the windshield. His next move is something of a mystery, but investigators remain fairly convinced it did not involve hurling himself into the river below. A search has yielded no body, and it soon dawned on police that Israel’s morbid window writing was the title of the theme song from...
...volunteers have been deployed to battle the algae, says Gao Zhenhui, director of the State Oceanic Administration's North China Sea Environmental Monitoring Center in Qingdao. "At first we didn't realize how big it would be," Gao says. "We didn't think it would happen so fast." Last June, Qingdao saw an algae blooms that covered 27 square miles, and a second one in September covered three square miles. But those are dwarfed by the current algae bloom, which covers 154 square miles...