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Still, after membership declined throughout the '90s, the number of new SigEp recruits has increased 11% since 1999. Insurance premiums, which have a habit of rising when frat boys burn down their houses or fall off their balconies, have gone down the past two years. The average GPA for SigEp's members has reached the 3.0 mark, which the organization boasts is the highest of all fraternities...
...have gone the way of the Dodo and the 8-track), the web might never have had enough bandwidth to gain traction. Some people occasionally find end-to-end frustrating, and sometimes quite reasonably so. Certain traffic, it seems, really is more important. In the late ’90s, when Napster entered the scene, it was so efficient at music swapping that academic uses of limited university bandwidth were hindered, so many schools (Harvard included) set out policies which gave preference to web and e-mail traffic over peer-to-peer file sharing. Another reason for sidestepping...
...chemicals. But after decades of side effects and the recent debate over whether antidepressants carry suicide risk for teens, we have seen only marginal gains in public mental health. A 2002 study in Prevention & Treatment found that approximately 80% of the response to the six biggest antidepressants of the '90s was duplicated in control groups who got a sugar pill. So we may be ready for something different...
...percentage of students who submitted a CUE evaluation, 84, remains well below Yale’s, which is in the mid-90s. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 wrote in an e-mail that Yale gets a higher response rate because their evaluations are a part of their culture, as they are becoming at Harvard, and because Yale withholds final examination grades if students do not submit evaluations. Harvard, he said, should not need to do that. “Harvard should be able to beat Yale on school spirit alone...
...never was - though it's hardly a crime. I'm a moderate person and I'm making a rational argument." He dismisses the idea that his program lacks the drama and importance of those of his predecessors. "We are in the 21st century now, not the 1980s or '90s," Barroso says. "Nostalgia is not the most helpful attitude." Europe's current stasis is deceptive, he suggests, as deep transformations following the E.U.'s 2004 enlargement churn beneath the surface. "The change from 15 to 25 countries creates new circumstances, and it takes some time to adjust the mindset...