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Corporate social responsibility and recession
in Sox First, on May 15, 2009
...Indeed, one could argue the CSR is now more important than ever. I recently chatted about this with Princeton University ethicist Peter Singer who said to me: "In the long term, you could suggest... ...er the company sells military equipment and weapons; and a category called "vice," which covers everything from alcohol and tobacco to gambling and pornography. It then took the 100 most res...
Amazon 推出新款 9.7-inch 显示屏的 Kindle DX
in Wangtam, on May 7, 2009
...you download books right from your Kindle, anytime, anywhere; no monthly fees, service plans, or hunting for Wi-Fi hotspots
• Books in Under 60 Seconds: Get books delivered in less than 60 seconds; no...
RFID Kid Finder for the careless parents
in The RFID Weblog, on March 17, 2009
...ent child separated from his parents.
In order to diminish any chance of agonies for the parents, Princeton has created a Kid Finder device where the remote gives directional information in order ...
Maths and the meltdown
in Sox First, on January 14, 2009
...ists have found that people often overestimate the precision of their knowledge. Scheinkman and his Princeton colleague Wei Xiong guessed that overconfident investors would trust their own opinions ab... ...coming increasingly manic the bigger the bubble gets ... Psychologists have found that people often overestimate the precision of their knowledge. Scheinkman and his Princeton colleague Wei Xiong gues...
Diagnosing the liquidity and credit crunch
in Sox First, on January 6, 2009
... looking at what went wrong. One of them, Deciphering the Liquidity and Credit Crunch 2007-08 by Princeton's Markus K. Brunnermeier is worth looking at. What made his meltdown so distinctive... ...han did the individual securities in the pool.1 In addition, issuing short-term assets improved the overall rating even further, since banks sponsoring these structured investment vehicles were not su...
Bernanke the banker
in Sox First, on December 17, 2008
... it out. If that much money is left in the monetary base, it would be extremely inflationary," Princeton economics professor Alan Blinder told the New York Times .
... ...s that the Fed has now become the most important commercial bank in the US. In effect, it is taking over the US banking system. Read the Fed's statement and you see that it amounts to nationaliz...
The "R" word highlighted - the worst since 1982
in Sox First, on October 20, 2008
...from experts that the US is facing its worst recession since 1982. Alan Blinder, a professor at Princeton and former Fed vice-chairman has told the FT: "The game is now about making sure this... ...s something the world knew long ago: part of the US are already in deep recession. Nice to have a government that's in touch with what people are now going through! The biggest slump ever was re...
Forbes: College Rankings for Idiots?
in The Universities Weblog, on August 14, 2008
...ia isn't much better, but I'll let you read about it at College Admissions Counseling .
Princeton University ranks number one in the Forbes ranking.
...
University of Florida is Breaking Up the Party
in The Universities Weblog, on August 11, 2008
...ent code of conduct in the wake of being named the nation's best party school for 2009 by the Princeton Review.
If implemented, the proposed changes to the student code of conduct would prohibi...
The Gap Year (Is It a Good Idea to Take a Year Off?)
in The Universities Weblog, on August 5, 2008
National Public Radio aired in interesting story last month on the gap year - the idea of taking a year off between high school and college to see the world (or something like that).
More kids are taking gap years. Why? There are a number of reasons. Expanding your skills is high on the list. Jus...
Alert! We Have a New BEST Party School: The University of Florida
in The Universities Weblog, on August 2, 2008
...Move over WVU . With the publication of the 2009 Edition of the Princeton Review College Rankings we have a new "best party school" - the University of Florida.
The Huffington Post pu... ...Move over WVU . With the publication of the 2009 Edition of the Princeton Review College Rankings we have a new "best party school" - the University of Florida.
The Huffington Post pu...
Princeton Review College Rankings Out For 2009
in The Universities Weblog, on August 1, 2008
...to Todd Johnson over at College Admissions Partners for pointing out that the 2009 Edition of the Princeton Review College Rankings is out.
The rankings tell you everything .
Want to know who h... ...Hats off to Todd Johnson over at College Admissions Partners for pointing out that the 2009 Edition of the Princeton Review College Rankings is out.
The rankings tell you everything .
Want to k...
More on Where Doctoral Candidates Come From
in The Universities Weblog, on July 17, 2008
I blogged on Tuesday about a new piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the recently released 2006 Survey of Earned Doctorates . It took a couple of days, but I got my own copy of the tables on Baccalaureate-Origin that show where a doctoral candidate earned their undergraduate degree ...
Heldengeflüster
in BiblioBlog, on June 19, 2008
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Frisch abgestaubt: Adeles Backlist II
15 Interviews mit außergewöhnlichen Persönlichkeiten haben die beiden Journalisten André Behr und Lars Reichhardt in den Jahren von 1998 bis 2001 für das Magazin der Süddeutschen Zeitung geführt.
Dabei ist ihnen 15 mal das Kunststück ge...
17 款面向毕业生的在线工具与资源
in Wangtam, on May 22, 2008
【礼物】
- Celebrations.com
- eHow Guide To Graduation Gifts
- FoodNetwork.com
- Gifts.com
- GraduationParty.com
- Party411.com
Carl Icahn 将正式卷起新 Yahoo 收购风波
in Wangtam, on May 16, 2008
刚刚已经提及， 亿万富翁 Carl Icahn 上周谋得 Yahoo 董事席位，意欲发动代理权争夺战 。然后 Carl Icahn 在随后发给 Yahoo 的信中确认，他已经发动了旨在促成微软收购 Yahoo 的代理权争夺战。 Carl Icahn 已经提名了十位 Yahoo 董事候选人，希望用他们取代现有 Yahoo 董事会，以推动 Yahoo 接受微软每股 33 美元、总价值 475 亿美元的收购报价。 Carl Icahn 还在写给 Yahoo 董事会主席 Roy Bostock 的信中披露，他已经收购了 5900 万股 Yahoo 股票，并在寻求清除来自国美国联邦贸易委员会的反垄...
Somers Randolph Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 9, 2008
...the Corcoran School of Art and an apprenticeship in a marble yard in Pietrasanta, Italy, I attended Princeton.
Princeton is stubbornly academic, recognizing the study of, but not the creation of art ... ...r his larger pieces, Somers has also spent 30 years carving in miniature. When his wife Hillary discovered a virtual treasure trove of these tiny soapstone sculptures, she was inspired. They have tran...
The Toughest School to Get Into?
in The Universities Weblog, on March 15, 2008
...If you guessed Harvard, you were right.
The Princeton Review ranked Harvard as the toughest school to get into in its 2008 edition.
Seven of the eight toughest schools to get into where in the I...
The Happiest College... 2008 Princeton Review
in The Universities Weblog, on March 12, 2008
...Believe it or not, the Princeton Review ranks colleges on how happy students are. The winner? Students at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA, were the nation's happiest. And why not? The smallis...
2008's Best Party Schools, According to the Princeton Review
in The Universities Weblog, on March 2, 2008
...The Princeton Review provides a lot of valuable information on individual colleges and universities, including how they compare to each other in areas like academics and campus life . It does ... ...st party school is, and for 2008 that's West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV.
The people over at the Review use a variety of factors, including drug and alcohol use, time spent studying, an...
"Refeer" on Campus - According to the 2008 Princeton Review
in The Universities Weblog, on February 25, 2008
...most likely to run into marijuana on campus at a college in North America? Wonder no more, for the Princeton Review has that information.
In their 2008 Best Colleges Ranking, the Princeton Review l...
Princetion推出iPod蓝牙耳机
in 全新志 Tracing Gadget, on December 17, 2007
...
如图所示为日本Princeton公司推出的一款搭配iPod使用的蓝牙耳机设备 PTM-BHP5 。其采用蓝牙1.2版本无线连接，通过安置在iPod底部的蓝牙发射器来使用耳机进行收听音乐。同时具有麦克风，也可以和支持蓝牙连接的智能手机来搭配使用。耳机连接的蓝牙接收器可以直接通过耳机挂线来悬挂在胸前，而且具有播放控制键来方便操作音乐和来电应答。具有黑色和白色两种样式，售价12800日元。
...
Duke Makes Changes to Student Aid Policies
in The Universities Weblog, on December 10, 2007
...niversities pursuing the new financial aid policy are Amherst College, davidson college , and Princeton University.
You can find details on Duke's new program here .
The new policy goes i...
Finding Hidden Spam
in Networking for Pros, on December 5, 2007
...rties to identify spam. The success rate of the Pittsburgh algorithm is 90-99% for inbound spam.
Princeton University scientists are also targeting hidden spam. According to the researchers, i...
RIAA dishes out yet more lawsuits to Uni goers
in P2P File Sharing, on November 22, 2007
...Texas-Austin appears to be the uni with the most file sharers, or at least the most caught, whereas Princeton has relatively few. Interesting, ey?
# Boston University (40)
# Brown University (12)
# ...
30 余款写作工具与资源
in Wangtam, on November 2, 2007
【协同写作】
- Coventi.com
- Google Docs
- Glypho.com
- Novlet.com
- Portrayl.com
- SynchroEdit.com
- WideWORD.net
- Writeboard.com
- Writewith.com
- Zoho Writer
Father of Mechanism Design Wins Nobel
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 23, 2007
... from the next generation who built on his work: Eric Maskin of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and Roger Myerson of the university of chicago . Maskin and Myerson were PhD ...
New Bristol-Meyers Squibb's New Anti-Cancer Treatment: Ixempra, FDA-Approved
in Straightfromthedoc, on October 22, 2007
...A new anti-cancer treatment distributed by Bristol-Meyers Squibb Company (Princeton, New Jersey) - Ixempra (ixabepilone) - has recently been approved by the US FDA for use use in patients with me...
What Is A Limbic-Friendly Site?
in The Search Engine Weblog, on September 30, 2007
...omes from the Latin word ' limbus ' which means edge or border. The Limbic system covers the putative structure in the brain responsible in emotional connection with memory. The said ...
O2 Max Fitness Brings Fitness, Fun and Friendship to Teens and Tweens !
in Cool Picking, on September 28, 2007
...for teens to work out, socialize, hang out, do homework, study, and get the support of trainers and Princeton Review tutors - all in a safe and healthy space teens can call their own. Think of it as a...
25 款免费的在线教育资源
in Wangtam, on September 19, 2007
【用户提交课程的】
Connexions
Google Video Educational Genre
Internet Archive Open Educational Resources
Scholarpedia
Wikibooks
The World's Smallest Bluetooth 2.0 Dongle
in The Smart PDA, on August 24, 2007
... Interpreting the limitless subtleties of language. In any case, from what we can read, this Princeton Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR) dongle 's dimensions are 14 x 19 x 4.5mm (width, depth, height).
...
Ranking Community Colleges
in The Universities Weblog, on August 21, 2007
...ypically regarded as the poor cousins. Big college guides like U.S. News & World Report and the Princeton Review devote few, if any, of their glossy pages to community colleges, while reporters an... ...ave little to say about them as well.
Part of this is pure snobbery. Many of those who create and cover the mainstream college guides attended prestigious four-year schools-which helps to explain the...
U.S. News Rankings 2008
in The Universities Weblog, on August 17, 2007
... controversy continue.
For the record, here's how they stack up:
National Universities
1. Princeton
2. Harvard
3. Yale
4. Stanford
5. Penn /Cal Tech
7. MIT
8. Duke
9. Columbia/Chicago
... ... Well, they're out, as I promised yesterday. Let the controversy continue.
For the record, here's how they stack up:
National Universities
1. Princeton
2. Harvard
3. Yale
4. Stanford
5...
New U.S. News Rankings Released
in The Universities Weblog, on August 15, 2007
...
Still curious about this year's rankings? I can't divulge much, but suffice it to say that Princeton, Harvard and Yale fare well, while my alma mater, Penn, comes in fifth. Heavens.
... ... admissions counselor who has made it his mission to restore educational values to what he calls an over-commercialized college selection process. Thacker has been circulating a letter calling on coll...
Amherst College Eliminates Loans
in The Universities Weblog, on July 25, 2007
...
(Source: Amherst College)
Princeton did it , and now Amherst is following suit . Starting in fall '08, the college will not include loans in its financial aid packages. Instead, it w...
Cuby：iPod Shuffle 立体声底座
in M2 十字街口, on June 29, 2007
...
Cuby 是日本 Princeton 发布的一款适用于 iPod Shuffle 二代的小Dock，它可以通过三节AA电池供电，或者连接电脑通过USB给其供电，这样子可以减少电池寿命，间接起到环保作用嘛。这款Dock的体积为49×49x59毫米，重量为95克，输出功率为0.5W。绝对是款精致的iPod Shuffle Dock了，售价为3980日元，折合美元约33元。...
Princeton Cuby：Shuffle 2 dock
in 全新志 Tracing Gadget, on June 26, 2007
...
日本 Princeton 于日前推出了它们的新款适用于二代Shuffle的dock配件- iPod Cuby ！！
这款音响设备使用3接AA电池，输出功率为0.5瓦，体积约为49 x 49x 59 mm，仅重95克，还可通过USB与PC相连，预计售价33美金，约合人民币250块。...
U. of Chicago Lands $100 Million Gift for Scholarships
in The Universities Weblog, on June 1, 2007
... for student aid.
The institution is following other leading public and private colleges, such as Princeton University and the University of Virginia, in replacing loans with grants for lower-income... ...iven the University of Chicago $100 million to underwrite scholarships for low-income students.
Coverage from the Chronicle of Higher Education:
In an announcement of the gift on Wednesday, the ...
Are Elite Colleges "Engines of Social Mobility"?
in The Universities Weblog, on May 30, 2007
...ng to maintain some role as engines of social mobility, about two dozen schools - Amherst, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, the University of Virginia, Williams and the University of North Carolina, amon... ...e want talent from across all divides, wherever we can find it," President Marx said. Amherst covered the full cost of [Amherst student Anthony] Jack's education beyond what he earned in work...
Second-Tier Colleges Becoming Far More Selective
in The Universities Weblog, on May 17, 2007
...etitive crush at the top.
"It's harder to get into Bowdoin now than it was to get into Princeton when I worked there," said William M. Shain, who worked at Princeton in the 1970... ...financial aid at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me. Bowdoin is one of those benefiting from the spillover as the country's most prestigious colleges turn away nearly 9 out of 10 applicants.
At Leh...
Going to College
in The Parenting Weblog, on April 30, 2007
...t;
Check out the top ten best-value colleges -- public and private -- which was researched by the Princeton Review .
Public :
New College of Florida (Sarasota, Florida)
Truman State Univers...
Homegoing
in The Universities Weblog, on April 23, 2007
...
(Source: Princeton University)
Homecoming . It's a time-honored tradition on American campuses. Football games. Parties on the quad. Parades featuring returning alums. Revelry and refle... ....
You see, my institution spent its youth as a commuter college. We've become more residential over the years, but still only half of our undergraduates live on the campus. Many work part time or...
Selective Colleges Even More Selective
in The Universities Weblog, on April 4, 2007
...SAT math exam. Yale rejected several applicants with perfect 2400 scores on the three-part SAT, and Princeton turned away thousands of high school applicants with 4.0 grade point averages. Needless to... ...have been sending decision letters to student applicants in recent days, and rejection letters have overwhelmingly outnumbered the acceptances.
Stanford received a record 23,956 undergraduate applica...
U. of Florida Wins Tourney, Loses Early Decision
in The Universities Weblog, on April 3, 2007
...ly decision program - an announcement that followed just weeks after similar pledges at Harvard and Princeton Universities. The move was followed by months of quiet, until now.
In a decision that off... ...;ll have trouble attracting applicants, especially sports fans.
Here's how InsideHigherEd.com covered it:
The chain seemed to break in September. That's when the University of Virginia said...
NYU Tops List of "Dream" Colleges
in The Universities Weblog, on March 29, 2007
...t?
Nope. NYU is the top choice for students "dreaming" about colleges, according to the Princeton Review . Harvard is second.
Parents had a slightly different take, however, naming Stanfo...
Legacies Don't Make the Grade
in The Universities Weblog, on March 26, 2007
...
(Source: Princeton University)
Children of alumni, known as legacies, often receive preferential treatment when applying to mom's or dad's alma mater. How they fare once they're in is...
Davidson Drops Loans
in The Universities Weblog, on March 19, 2007
...ate ways to prevent college campuses from welcoming only rich students.
Elite universities such as Princeton and Columbia have eliminated or significantly reduced loans by awarding more grant money.
...
Colleges Rethinking Merit Aid
in The Universities Weblog, on March 15, 2007
...ffer merit aid; generally, the more selective a school, the less likely it is to do so. Harvard and Princeton, for example, offer generous need-based packages, but plenty of families who don't mee...
Harvard Set to Name Female President
in The Universities Weblog, on February 9, 2007
...he footsteps of Judith Rodin and Amy Gutmann of Penn, Ruth Simmons of Brown and Shirley Tilghman of Princeton as a female president of an Ivy school. Faust would break the mold even more, however, giv... ...on leaked the news yesterday. Read this bit from the Boston Globe:
Harvard University's main governing board has settled on its choice for the next president, two sources close to the search pro...
Hydrogen Power for Small Machines
in IfEnergy, on January 30, 2007
...ogen power running through its mechanical veins, thanks to a development headed by researchers from Princeton University. The system they have developed simply controls hydrogen fuel cell power thus m...
More Thoughts on Princeton's Freeze
in The Universities Weblog, on January 29, 2007
...
(Source: Williams College)
Last week I reported that Princeton has decided not to raise tuition for the next academic year. (Room and board rates, however, will increase.) What are the implicatio...
Princeton Freezes Tuition
in The Universities Weblog, on January 22, 2007
...
(Source: Princeton University )
More "big news" from Princeton: The University announced it will not raise tuition for next year. Yippee.
Princeton must love headlines. It dropp... ...emain at $33,000 under an operating budget approved by the university's trustees on Sunday. The overall cost of attending will rise 4.2 percent over this year, to $43,980, because the university w...
Early Decision Persists
in The Universities Weblog, on January 16, 2007
...oned recently , Yale has opted not to follow Harvard's lead and drop early decision admissions. Princeton did, however. But the rest of the Ivies and other elite schools maintain the practice. Why...
Celebrities Become Role Models For Online Degree Students
in The Online Universities Weblog, on January 5, 2007
... of diverse people such as Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman, who received a Ph.D. from Princeton; Howard Stern, who graduated from Boston University; and Tom Brokaw, who earned a bachelor...
Yale to Keep Early Admissions
in The Universities Weblog, on January 5, 2007
...Yale has decided to continue the practice. This decision comes on the heels of moves by Harvard and Princeton to eliminate early admissions, a program that many opponents felt disadvantaged low-income... ...early-admissions program despite the recent decisions by its two biggest rivals to abandon the controversial practice.
In an interview published in the January-February edition of the Yale Alumni Ma...
The Novelist's Accomplice
in Philoneist, on November 29, 2006
...ving graduated from a university that has an affiliation in common with, but is not Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn or Brown.
We'll call my friend's friend John, because ... ... to write about this report until a friend told me the following story today.
The story unfolds over a Thanksgiving feast, when my friend, his wife, and a couple of their close friends, begin to t...
Yale Student Sues Princeton Over Rejection
in The Universities Weblog, on November 28, 2006
...
(Source: Princeton University)
Are Asian-Americans penalized in the elite-college admissions process? Yes, says a Yale freshman rejected by other top colleges, including Princeton, which he's... ... a personal defeat."
The Yale writer went on to note that, in fact, "Asian-Americans are over represented" at Princeton: They make up 13 percent of undergraduates, compared with 4.5 pe...
Beware the Sample Business Plan Trap
in Biz Plan Hacks, on November 17, 2006
...se obligations are seen as important as those between a trustee and a beneficiary. For example, the Princeton WordNet defines a fudiciary as a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary; &quo... ...oes not disclose a tendency of the business to seasonal revenue fluctuations could be considered an oversight or even fraud if the sample plan projected steady growth in sales.
This can become an is...
UVA Drops Early Admissions
in The Universities Weblog, on September 28, 2006
...
(Source: University of Virginia)
On the heels of similar decisions at Harvard and Princeton , the University of Virginia has dropped its early admissions program, citing disadvantages for l...
Early Decision Debate Rages On
in The Universities Weblog, on September 24, 2006
...
(Source: Columbia University)
The recent moves by Harvard and Princeton to drop early decision admissions options have rekindled debate about the merits and shortcomings of such programs. Observe...
Following Harvard's Lead, Princeton Drops Early Decision
in The Universities Weblog, on September 19, 2006
...
(Source: Princeton University)
It was bound to happen. As I reported last week , Harvard dropped its Early Action admissions option. I suggested other Ivies would follow suit.
Up first? ...
I Am Damocles.
in Philoneist, on September 14, 2006
... has shrunken to levels not seen since satellites began watching in 1979. Philoneist found a lovely Princeton University study this morning on the technological inadequacies, and therefore threats, ... ...nological inadequacies, and therefore threats, of electronic voting, but the global-warming studies overwhelmed his interest them. In the long-run--our grandchildren's world--the sea-ice study han...
A Rank Enterprise
in The Universities Weblog, on September 2, 2006
...n has climbed as high as fourth, causing great glee among alums. We followed only Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Beating out Stanford and MIT, among others, made us beat our collective chest. This year,... .... After a home, a car and a college education are among life's most expensive propositions. Moreover, both your college and your car to some extent define who you are. People can form opinions-fav...
Outsourcing Helps - Really!
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 25, 2006
...think that all outsourcing has done to the US is the job losses, think again.
Two economists from Princeton University revealed that outsourcing does not have a negative impact in the economy. Pr...
U.S. News Releases 2007 College Rankings
in The Universities Weblog, on August 17, 2006
...row, but I managed to get my grubby paws on them early. Here they are:
National Universities
1. Princeton
2. Harvard
3. Yale
4. Cal-Tech/MIT/Stanford
7. Penn
8. Duke
9. Columbia/Dartmouth/UChicago...
Who Needs Harvard?
in The Universities Weblog, on August 15, 2006
..., so it might be in the market for someone with your particular skills. You can be fifth-generation Princeton or the first in your family to apply to college: it's still the most important decisio... ... That question recently graced the cover of Time magazine, and of course the article retold the same old story : Competition for the Ivies and such is fierce, and students can find a good educati...
A Wheelbarrow of Money Will Not Make You Happy
in Businesspundit, on June 29, 2006
...sion.
People surveyed about their own happiness and that of others with varying incomes tended to overstate the impact of income on well-being, according to a new study. Although income is widely as...
Bosses' pay and America's reputation
in Sox First, on June 23, 2006
...f rules or scripts, whether those jobs are for book-keepers or call-centre workers. Alan Blinder of Princeton, by contrast, says that the demand for skills depends on whether they must be used in pers...
Engineering life: the pros and cons of synthetic biotechnology
in Nanotechbuzz, on June 1, 2006
...chbuzz, gives hope that a proactive attitude toward synthetic biotech is emerging. (photo Ron Weiss Princeton University)...
