One Laptop Per Child Launches OLPCorps
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in Africa, undergraduate and graduate students from around the world will assist in providing educational opportunities to children in the world's poorest countries.
One Laptop per Child will provide each student team
Northwestern Mutual Maintains High Dividend Payout, Financial Strength Despite Market Turmoil
Summary of Operations
(Consolidated statutory basis, in millions)
Year ended December 31: 2008 2007
Premiums $13,551 $13,242
Net investment income 7,835 7,568
Other income 537 545
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Total revenue 21,923 21,355
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Policyowner
Recession 101: students face bleak job market
WEST LONG BRANCH ? Two years ago, Steven Pressman warned students in his economics classes at Monmouth University that the housing bubble was going to burst and plunge the country into a deep recession.
"The sensible thing to do is sell your house,
One Laptop Per Child launches intern program
One Laptop Per Child, the Cambridge nonprofit organization that has sometimes struggled with its mission to bring $100 laptops to the world's poor children, said it is launching an internship program in which up to 100 teams of university students from
Student log: Charna-Marie Dixon
Editor's note: CNN is following four Bauder College students as they build their case files in the Chandra Levy and Natalee Holloway investigations. The following is one of the logs that each is keeping to document their cases. Charna-Marie Dixon is a
Nico Colchester journalism fellowships | The Economist [del.icio.us]
Europe and the recession
Will the recession do more to divide or unite Europe?
Applications are invited from journalists and would-be journalists from Britain and continental Europe for the 2009 Nico Colchester fellowships.
These fellowships were
Thomas C. Barber, MD, Elected Chair of Academy Board of Councilors
The BOC represents the grassroots of the orthopaedic profession and explores health policy, education, research, advocacy and communications functions within the Academy. Its 100 plus members are elected by state orthopaedic societies. This group
Paul Tornetta III, MD, Elected to American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Board of Directors
Dr. Tornetta is currently the director of orthopaedic trauma at the Boston Medical Center and professor, vice chairman, and the residency program director of orthopaedic surgery at the Boston University School of Medicine.
"I am indeed honored," said
David W. Polly Jr., MD, Elected Secretary of Academy Board of Specialty Societies
Currently a professor and chief of spinal surgery in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Polly also served his country on active duty in the United States Army for 25 years, then finished his service as chair of
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