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...came just that close to telling him that we were 99.9 percent the same, but I didn’t want to ruin that poor man’s dessert,” Clinton said to applause and laughter from the audience...
...reality such gifts, which comprise up to 90 percent of the donations to the HCF, more often go to decidedly less sexy causes—including maintenance costs and utility bills that the entire FAS incurs. While many of these expenditures benefit the College indirectly, they do not accomplish the goal that the fund’s name would seem to imply and many donors seem to expect: to give back to undergraduate life at Harvard College...
Black silicon reflects only 2 to 4 percent of light back into the air, absorbing the rest. Ordinary silicon, by contrast, reflects about 40 percent of light...
...companies paid Emory University $525 million—about 12 percent of the value of the school’s endowment at the time—to purchase rights to an anti-retroviral drug discovered by three researchers there. The drug, marketed as Emtriva, is used to treat...
...worldwide are more prosperous, more educated, and more free to pursue individual happiness than ever before. We produce better products using fewer resources (thanks to the dematerialization of consumer goods); the environment is generally healthier (major air pollutants like sulfur and carbon monoxide have declined by 15 to 75 percent since 1970); and society is more tolerant (going from the Stonewall Riots to Queer...