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...beyond this desirable yet insufficient quality.Finally, we come to the speedskater’s potential value to the Harvard community.Here, we get into the heart of the matter. A person’s potential value to the community must figure as the most important factor every time another Common App is reviewed.The question then is this: How does the admissions process get warped when the readers are suddenly dealing with an Olympic athlete?“We always look for talent, Olympic-quality and otherwise,” wrote Director of Undergraduate Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis in an email...
...ticked “other” on a bunch of those forms, because I’m of mixed race descent,” Allen A.T. Ewalt ’07 said. “Notably, though, not the common app. That one allowed you to tick multiple boxes...
...Dissigno, in San Francisco. After eons of number crunching, he hit on the right formula and built a prototype. It isn't very efficient; his device uses 35 times as much energy as an electric fridge to make 1 kg of ice. But its simplicity could yield a killer app in Third World villages, where Williams hopes aid groups will distribute his icemaker as an economic-development tool. He aims to field-test it in Haiti later this year. --By Daren Fonda. Reported by Matt Smith/New York
WHAT'S THE NEXT KILLER APP...
...widespread acceptance. According to Strategy Analytics, within five years, more than half of all mobile phones sold will be able to play digital music. "I wouldn't quite say music on mobile phones is shaping up to be a killer application, but I would say it's a manslaughter app," says Neil Mawston, an analyst for Strategy Analytics. Need further validation? Motorola, the world's second-largest cell-phone maker, recently announced it will include Apple's iTunes software on its next series of phones...