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...Shares of Colonial had fallen as low as $1.44, plunging 46% in a week, on fears the firm wouldn't qualify for government assistance. On Thursday, though, the firm said it had applied to receive TARP funds. The company's shares rallied on the news to a recent $1.98. Colonial, based in Montgomery, Ala., is one of the nation's largest regional banks, with more than 340 branches in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Texas, and $16.8 billion in customers' deposits...
...thing, the dose of vitamin D supplementation used in the trial, 400 IUs, was relatively low. In the years since the study began in 1993, nutritionists have learned much more about the critical role that vitamin D plays in a wide range of cellular functions, and many now recommend up to 2,000 IUs daily for adults. Most people get very little vitamin D from their diet - the richest sources of the vitamin are dairy products and green leafy vegetables - so supplementation is the only way to reach recommended levels. "Four hundred IUs is just not a lot," says...
Ireland's transformation in the 1990s was as sweeping as it was swift. Lured by low taxes and a young, well-educated workforce, multinational firms such as Intel, Dell and Hewlett-Packard set up shop, establishing Ireland as a bridge between the U.S. and Europe. Exports soared, helped by billions of dollars in E.U. development funds and the government's clever management of public finances. Growth took off too: the Irish economy expanded at an average of 6.5% a year during the '90s, more than double the rate of the previous decade...
...This is fairly low-key. Everyone’s actually talking as opposed to mashing up against each other,” says Jennifer...
...Harvard’s recent wave of Financial Aid reforms include sweeping measures that have allowed students from low-income families to afford an Ivy League education. The Harvard Financial Aid Initiative has eliminated the entire cost of attendance for students whose annual family income is below $60,000. The most recent financial aid measures have extended these benefits to the middle class: the FAO has eliminated loans and the use of home equity as means to finance educational costs, and has also reduced the cost of attendance to 10 percent of income for families with incomes...