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...added that she believes a deal would be highly beneficial for Facebook, and that the additional cash would allow the site to expand in preparation for an initial public offering...
...courses, one of Harvard’s most under-appreciated policies. Especially when one compares Harvard to most other colleges nationwide, which typically have an add/drop period of two to three weeks—if they have one at all—one realizes that Harvard students are already allowed a considerable amount of time to explore their options. Nevertheless, a few relatively minor changes to the way the faculty and administration think about the drop/add period would allow students to take even better advantage of the flexibility it affords. Firstly, professors should plan their courses so that students...
Leavitt said he supported using a competitive market to ensure efficiency in addition to standardizing medical procedure prices to allow consumers to shop around...
...Stoll began looking for ways to speed up the queue. She discovered that many students, especially kindergarteners, can't remember their six-digit ID number, which they're required to type into keypads at the end of lunch lines. She then found out that there was technology that would allow a scanner to identify a kid qualified for lunch with the swipe of a finger, moving him or her quickly along. It would help kids who regularly forget their lunch money, and it would potentially remove some of the stigma faced by children who receive special tickets for free...
...ticking through the declaration's list of "rights" to protection from poverty, illiteracy and disease. That's a fairly progressive position: liberal economists, like Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, have said that basic human rights, like the right to vote, are only as good the social and economic rights that allow for them to be exercised effectively. Bush would never endorse the establishment of such broad rights, which tend to be guaranteed only in welfare states, but he is claiming some of those ideals for his own ends...