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...many prefrosh said they felt that the program did a good job of giving them a taste of social life at Harvard—dispelling common myths about the University and ultimately convincing them to matriculate. In 2006, 91 percent of admitted students who attended prefrosh weekend chose to accept Harvard’s offer, Erin F. Fehn ’04, an admissions officer and the visiting program’s director, said last year. Fehn said she did not have statistics for 2007. With the many happenings on campus this weekend—the welcome guide featured...
...element of the standard pricing scheme is the charge for receiving messages. All messages are charged twice, typically at a rate of 10 cents for the sender and five for the receiver, though receivers can pay as high as 25 cents. Worse, since the recipient has no choice to accept or reject an incoming message, cell phone users can be billed for receiving spam...
...accept the theory of evolution, you accept that our genetic makeup, physical appearance and brain capacity are all related to our endeavor to survive and reproduce. Plants did not need legs to survive, and fish did not need hands. Humans, on the other hand, have a sophisticated brain that far exceeds what they need to survive and reproduce. I would like to see scientists research the brain capacity that various species need. If humans alone have evolved with capacities that far exceed what they essentially need, then intelligent design needs to be part of the story for us humans. Allen...
...carefully, there are more parallels between these types of labor than you would imagine.Child actors, like sweatshop workers, often lose the opportunity to attend a normal school and never experience important stages in character and personality development. Thrown into a world controlled by adults, both are often forced to accept adult responsibilities when they are far too immature to adjust. The pressures placed upon them are unnatural at their age. The resulting misbehavior—largely related to drug and alcohol abuse—of these kids is not remotely surprising.By “discovering” children, Iris Burton...
...Middle East if they were publicly fingered after the attack. In other words, it was one thing for Israel to send bombers into Syrian airspace and obliterate a massively expensive nuclear reactor that had been under construction for years. Syrian President Basahr Assad could apparently accept that. But talking about it in public? Now that was really going to hack the Syrians off - so much so they might start a war against Israel that they would almost surely lose...