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| Harvard asks donors for $6.5 billion | | | BOSTON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Harvard, the richest university in the United States, announced on Saturday it will seek to raise some $6.5 billion in donations to fund new academic initiatives and bolster its financial aid program. |
| No. 22 Notre Dame Outlasts Michigan State 17-13 | | | Notre Dame took advantage of a trick play that backfired, as well as four pass interference calls and a holding penalty that kept drives alive, to defeat Michigan State for the third straight time. |
| ThyssenKrupp talks with hedge funds on share issue | | | DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp , which has said it risks breaching loan covenants, is in talks with hedge funds to persuade them to buy into an issue of new shares,... |
| Scientists confirm new element | | | As though it wasn't hard enough to memorize the names and atomic weights of 117 elements in the periodic table, scientists have now confirmed a new one. |
| Which model earns $42 million? | | | On the heels of London Fashion Week, CNN takes a look at how a new generation of supermodels are moving beyond the catwalk and making millions from their own brand. |
| Driverless shuttles seen as viable public transport alternative | | | Sept. 17 - A collaboration between French company Induct and a Singapore university aims to replace conventional shuttle buses with a driverless, electric alternative. The team are currently testing the vehicle on a two kilometre test route virtually devoid of other traffic, but hope eventually to increase its range. Rob Muir has more. |
| Most powerful female politician? | | | Frugal, discreet and boring -- just some of the ways Angela Merkel has been described by peers and in the global press. As Germans head to the polls Sunday, CNN looks at how the German chancellor became the most powerful woman in the world. |
| Siemens chairman to quit Axel Springer board magazine | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - Siemens supervisory board chairman Gerhard Cromme will quit the board of publisher Axel Springer to focus on his role at Germany's biggest engineering company, WirtschaftsWoche magazine reported on Saturday. |
| "Practical" solar car hits the road in Sydney | | | Sept. 16 - Among the teams competing in next month's 3000 kilometer World Solar Challenge race across Australia, is a group from the University of New South Wales who've built a solar-powered vehicle designed to look like a conventional car. In a field dominated by vehicles that look anything but conventional, the car provides a glimpse of what we could be driving on the roads in years to come. Lester Ranby was there for its first test drive. |
| Kura | | | Inside the tiny East Village sushi restaurant with an austere exterior. |
| BRIEF-Lundbeck, Otsuka get positive opinion for schizophrenia drug | | | COPENHAGEN, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Danish pharmaceutical group H. Lundbeck A/S said on Friday * It and Japanese partner Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. ,4768.Tgt; have receive positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) * Committee recommends marketing authorisation for Abilify Maintena (aripiprazole), a treatment for the maintenance of schizophrenia |
| "Practical" solar car hits the road in Sydney | | | Sept. 16 - Among the teams competing in next month's 3000 kilometer World Solar Challenge race across Australia, is a group from the University of New South Wales who've built a solar-powered vehicle designed to look like a conventional car. In a field dominated by vehicles that look anything but conventional, the car provides a glimpse of what we could be driving on the roads in years to come. Lester Ranby was there for its first test drive. |
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