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...Carolina and Virginia increasingly depend on support from outside their home states, either in the form of philanthropy or in top tuition rates paid by a growing number of wealthy out-of-state students. The result has already been a quasi-privatization of some of the nation's top research institutions and the economic stratification of their student bodies...
...public universities like Michigan have been confident about their ability to attract enough wealthy out-of-state students to help fill their coffers. But it will become difficult to continue competing with private institutions if they cannot simultaneously expand their research capacity and recruit top-flight faculty. And the struggling economy is forcing even wealthy families to look for the best value for their tuition dollars. For just $5,000 more in tuition, an out-of-state student could forgo Michigan for New York University, the nation's largest private school with nearly double the number of faculty. In recent...
...investors who like to keep score. Apple's iPhone sales likely come at the expense of Research-in-Motion (RIMM) which makes the iconic business tool, the Blackberry, and struggling also-ran Palm (PALM) which is about to release its Pre, the company's last shot at viability. The fact that the Pre will be sold by Sprint (S) which has lower customer satisfaction rating than most short order take-out restaurants makes the future of the little company look bleak. RIMM's stock, on the other hand, has traded up even more than Apple's has this year. That...
...iPod in 2001, but the firm was around for a long time before then. RIMM and the Blackberry are young in the brand Hall of Fame, a group that is dominated by Coca-Cola (KO), IBM (IBM), Microsoft (MSFT), and GE (GE). Interbrand, the Rolls Royce of global brand research, has Apple and Blackberry on its list of the 100 Most Valuable Brands. The list is not infallible; it includes Xerox (XRX), which should have left for "brand heaven" a long time...
...have been killed in murder-suicides, and there is no telling why the crimes occurred in such rapid succession. It is also not clear whether the spate of recent deaths represents an escalation in the typical murder-suicide death toll. But it has got some observers wondering why. Past research suggests that factors ranging from the time of year (suicides are more common in spring) to the financial climate may have an impact on the rates of suicide and murder; in the recent events, the apparent motive of the killers included sexual jealousy and economic despair. (See pictures...