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Husbanding That $27 Billion (extended):
Harvard's Jack Meyer doesn't see future returns matching past yields (BusinessWeek) Harvard Management CEO Jack Meyer makes outsize returns on the $27 billion he invests for the university. Recently he gave a rare interview to William C. Symonds, BusinessWeek's Boston bureau chief. ... ... Q: You've had a great run over the past decade, earning a 15.9% annual return. But recently you've been warning Harvard that you don't expect the good times to persist. Why not? A: Because when you look at the various asset classes in which we invest, they're all pretty expensive. ... Please note: the following link may only be available to paid subscribers to BusinessWeek http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_52/b3914474.htm _________________________________________ Fitness Doesn't Negate Risk of Fatness: Activity Can Reduce, but Not Remove, Effects of Being Overweight, Study Finds (The Washington Post) By Rob Stein Physical activity can offset some of the harmful health consequences of being overweight but cannot fully erase them, according to the biggest study to examine the relative benefits of being fit vs. fat. ... ... "Physical activity reduces the effects of being overweight, but it's far from removing all the increased risk associated with obesity," said Frank Hu, an associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, who led the study being published in today's New England Journal of Medicine. "This data does not support the hypothesis that if you are physically active, you don't have to worry about your weight." ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20488-2004Dec22.html _________________________________________ Study: Active but Obese Face Greater Risks (Associated Press) By Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press | December 23, 2004 Being fit but fat isn't good enough. Excess weight, all by itself, can take years off your life, even if you get plenty of exercise, a study found. "There has been some suggestion that if you are particularly active, you don't have to worry about your body weight, about your diet. That's very misleading," said the report's lead author, Dr. Frank Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health. ... _________________________________________ Exercise Not Enough to Offset Obesity Health Risks (Reuters) Wed Dec 22, 2004 08:53 PM ET By Gene Emery BOSTON (Reuters) - Regular exercise is not enough to offset the health problems associated with obesity -- but that shouldn't stop people who are overweight from working out, according to a study to be published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. ... ... Frank Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health and his colleagues found that a high level of physical activity did not eliminate the risk of premature death associated with obesity -- and leanness did not offset the increased risk in mortality conferred by inactivity. ... http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=7165216 _________________________________________ Health: Obese People Can't Run From Health Risks (Forbes) By Ed Edelson WEDNESDAY, Dec. 22 (HealthDayNews) -- Increased physical activity can't overcome the potentially deadly effects of obesity, a new study concludes. The 24-year study of more than 116,000 women found that obesity "predicted a higher risk of death regardless of the level of physical activity," according to a report in the Dec. 23 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The study was done by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health. ... http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2004/12/22/hscout523035.html _________________________________________ Dr. William Baker, at 82; Mass. General cancer researcher (The Boston Globe) By Avi Steinberg, Globe Correspondent | December 23, 2004 Dr. William Henry Baker was passionate about making his rounds. And whether they were on the golf course or in medicine, Dr. Baker, known to most as Bill, always brought his characteristic good humor with him. ... ... In 1950, he joined Massachusetts General Hospital, where he spent 52 years as a physician, researcher, and professor of clinical medicine at Harvard Medical School. ... _________________________________________ A rare UN report that isn't deadly dull (The
Daily Star) Committee reports are usually deadly dull, and UN committee reports are among the dullest. But the recent report of the UN Secretary General's High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change broke that rule. Sixteen political leaders and former diplomats combined principle with political realism to produce the most comprehensive proposals for change since the UN was created in 1945. ... ... Joseph S. Nye is a distinguished service professor at Harvard University and author of "The Power Game: A Washington Novel". ... http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=11225 |
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