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Smart Alecky. Amazon.com closed at a low of around 4 bucks a stub this year. In a spectacular miscalculation, Amazon offered more than $2B in covertible bonds at the height of the stock bubble in 1999. Rather than taking advantage of their frothy stock price to raise capital, AMZN took on a mountain of debt with the expectation that the convertible bonds would quickly hit a strike price of ~$80, convert to stock, and further dilute the outstanding pool of common shares. Instead, AMZN shares fell like a rock as the tech bubble collapsed, and the company’s survival is imperiled as this debt comes due.

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Textbook Requirements

Each spring the University Book Store asks faculty teaching fall quarter courses to forward their textbook requirements to the store before the end of May.

Stroke survivor event
Harborview Medical Center is hosting a free community event this Saturday, May 11, for stroke survivors, their families and others concerned about strokes.

Last month, Dan Jacoby, Chair of the General Faculty Organization at UW Bothell shared his views in a University Week column titled, “Growing up is a challenging balancing act for Bothell.

Claire Dietz
HS News & Community Relations


The School of Medicine’s Office of Research and Graduate Education has recently completed reorganization of a unit focusing on outside professional employment for faculty members, research contracts and conflict-of-interest policies.

Because of the rise in HIV and STD infections in King County, the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit of the University of Washington and the Student Leadership Division of Multicultural Events and Activities at Seattle Central Community College have joined forces and organized a conference and health fair called “Sex Gets Even Louder.”

Seattle, WA ­ Harborview Medical Center will host an educational event for stroke survivors, their families and friends from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, at the Harborview Research and Training Building, 300 9th Ave., Seattle.

The number of 15- to 17-year-old boys having sex in the past decade dropped 8.5 percent, and teens were generally acting more responsibly when it came to sex with rates of pregnancy, abortions and sexually transmitted diseases all falling

The 2002 Taking Control of Your Diabetes conference is Saturday, May 4, at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in downtown Seattle.