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Daily Archive for December 9th, 2010

Yay. Not.

Posted in Development on Dec 9th, 2010

In today’s headlines: Another 17 of America’s richest people, including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, junk bond pioneer Michael Milken and AOL co-founder Steve Case, have pledged to give away most of their wealth. … those who pledge are committing to give away at least half of their wealth to philanthropic causes either before or after they […]

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Unsuccessfully Measuring Success

Posted in Environment on Dec 9th, 2010

Let’s talk about recycling a little bit more. I have had several dozen student papers submitted to me on recycling (I ask them to evaluate a host of questions, including providing a cost-benefit study of a local recycling program). In the vast majority of these papers I see two common assertions intended to point to […]

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