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"Colleges with endowments larger than $500 million spent on average only 4.4 percent in 2007. For colleges with endowments greater than $500 million but less than $1 billion, that's the lowest rate since 1999, and for colleges with endowments greater th
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Not my Corporate Masters, but these students at my college are entering an invention competition with a new medical device.
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I'd vote for him.
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Jessa Crispin reviews a theologian's response to the "new atheist" screeds, and finds both sides inferior to William James.
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"Who's tougher than lady cops and waitresses? Not pirates!"
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"Page believes that studies like this, which present mathematical models of decision-making, show that initiatives to encourage cultural diversity in social, academic and institutional settings are not just exercises in politically correct posturing."
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