The Zeppelin NT, built from endowment money left behind by German airship pioneer Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, will make further test flights around Friedrichshafen over the coming months, before flying to London - where a former contestant from The Apprentice, Rory Laing, plans to offer tourist joyrides over the capital for £150 a throw.
Today, however, the online retail giant is looking to address that apparent oversight, announcing a $1 million donation to the Wikimedia Endowment, the fund behind Wikipedia.
It plans to leave behind an endowment to cover some of the maintenance costs associated with the playgrounds, Ms. Wenner said.
In the late 1990s, Wesleyan decided to address the nagging problem of its endowment, which had slipped behind those of its peers.
The idea behind the "endowment effect", popularized by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, is that people become psychologically territorial about their own stuff, and begin imagining all the ways they'll use their new treasure once it's in their hands.
And even though he left behind a $25 million endowment, the earnings on that endowment only cover a fraction of the museum's operating costs.
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia, while the Endowment is the fund.
Or they can take a far bolder step: putting their endowments and influence behind a comprehensive effort to close the learning gap that starts at birth.
Harvard's sizable endowment enables it to put financial muscle behind these changes, but publicly funded universities also seem to be improving the prospects for junior faculty.
"There is a sectarian purpose behind the acts of the Shiite Endowment in Samarra," said Ahmad Riyadh, a Samarra resident.
