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Just as central banks in China, India, Russia and many other nations view gold as a monetary reserve protection against the falling dollar, major academic institutions are looking for new asset classes like precious metals and commodities to produce returns that can be put to work as a source of funds for a large portion of college operating expenses.
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"Thus, while hangover is a common phenomenon among college drinkers, for most of them it occurs rarely enough that it is unlikely to have a major deleterious impact on academic performance, " Dr Slutske said.
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For instance, MIT's Eric Lander founded Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) in 1993, but that didn't stop him from being a major force in the academic effort to map the human genome.
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