December 19, 2009
It is a bummer when you lose almost 1/3 of your endowment. This is the down direction that many educational institutions have had to deal with lately. By the way the 1/3 loss leaves them in their endowment program with a measely $26 billion.
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endowment,
Harvard,
science,
science center
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December 17, 2009
We dug up our oldest ancestor (No, it wasn’t Aunt Harriet) We found out how plants get a rush, we even reconstructed the skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus (no relation to Joan Rivers). More..more..peek and seek.
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2009 - That Fabulous Year in Science,
Ardi,
laser,
NASA's Lunar Crater Observation,
reprogrammed cells,
science,
x-ray laser
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