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...Unfortunately, there is precious little data on what sorts of changes to mortgages do have the best shot of keeping borrowers in their homes in the long run. The most quoted research on the topic, from the investment bank Credit Suisse, shows - unsurprisingly - that when modifications involve lower monthly payments, borrowers have much more of a fighting chance. One report, looking at modifications made to a pool of sub-prime loans, found that 44% of loans with increased monthly payments were more than 60 days delinquent within eight months. After that same period, only 15% of loans that had received...
...love for math and his personal desire to share his awe at its power to explain worldly phenomena. Despite his passion, both Livio’s writing and argument are uneven. At times his prose reads like a history textbook, at others like a review of the latest research in astrophysics. Belying his vigorous attempt to write to the reader, Livio struggles in vain to include sufficient background information necessary for the average reader to match his own remarkable comprehension and unique enthusiasm...
After 20 years at Harvard Medical School, Professor D. Gary Gilliland will depart to lead cancer research at the pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co., the company announced earlier this week. While at Harvard, Gilliland gained international recognition for discovering the genetic basis of leukemia and served as director of both the Leukemia Program at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and the Cancer Stem Cell Program for the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Gilliland’s latest work harnessed his earlier findings to explore how drugs could be used to treat leukemia. “His expertise in both basic...
...Harvard, the Freshman Seminar Program was already responding to a perceived change in the student body: their increased interest in artistic endeavors.The Task Force, comprised of faculty, students, and professional artists associated with the Harvard community, released a report last December emphasizing the value of the arts in research institutions such as Harvard. According to Faust, the findings called for an end to the “‘curricular banishment of the arts,” and has generated much anticipation for a greater presence of the arts in academic offerings.However, the Freshman Seminar Program—which...
...created an oversupply of chips, while the global economic slowdown is drastically weakening demand for the slivers of silicon that go into computers, mobile phones, portable music players and a host of other consumer electronics products. The result has been plummeting prices. According to a price index compiled by research firm iSuppli, DRAM prices have plunged 48% in the past six months. That is good news for consumers - cheaper DRAMs mean electronics makers can pack more memory into their gadgets - but it is a disaster for manufacturers. At current price levels, chipmakers have a hard time making money...