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Brown University’s announcement last week that it will adopt a “need-blind” admissions policy was an important but long-awaited decision. Starting in 2003, Brown will no longer weigh an applicant’s ability to pay for college during admissions decisions. Brown is the last of the Ivy League universities to become need-blind; this switch means that students from all economic backgrounds applying to elite universities will finally be evaluated solely on their merit—not their money...
...exact genetic stencil of a lost pooch or kitty, that doesn't mean it's a good idea. Given that more than 5 million unwanted cats are destroyed each year, it's hard to justify spending tens of thousands of dollars to clone a new one. Why not just adopt? What's more, some of the animals cloned so far have been plagued by fatal heart and lung defects in infancy...
...Persuading partners to adopt DoCoMo technology is proving difficult. Carriers in other countries have been reluctant to spend heavily to upgrade their wireless data networks, fearing their countrymen do not have the same enthusiasm for photo-swapping, game-playing handsets as the Japanese. After spending billions of dollars getting government licenses to operate 3G systems, many debt-ridden carriers have put plans for network overhauls on the back burner. "The whole point of investing abroad was a speedy roll-out for 3G," says Yasumasa Goda, analyst for Merrill Lynch Japan Securities. "But clearly this is no longer realistic...
Consumers rarely adopt new technology until they're sure of its benefits. Luckily for the industry, digital radio's pluses are easily explained: clearer sound and more choice. Digitalization transforms sound into the binary codes of 1s and 0s, which can be transmitted as audio waves free from interference. The result is a CD-like broadcast unmarred by the hiss, static and drift that bedevil analog stations. And because digital uses little bandwidth, it allows for the transmission of many more channels. Niche stations already available in Britain range from all-film music to classic rock to One Word...
...legal and media bureaus and the very land they walk on, is clearly ludicrous. Janitors, students, faculty, and community members have no representation on the Harvard Corporation and vastly fewer resources at their disposal; they do not have the power to “force” Harvard to adopt fairer labor policies or even to force it to negotiate in good faith. In fact, the only significant limit on the Harvard administration’s response to its critics is its desire to avoid drawing attention to poverty on campus...