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Pitkin says this wall may create a "psychological barrier" between Harvard and the eastern part of Cambridge. "If the new policy continues in this way," he says, "it would really change the character of the city in a negative...
...hoopla, many Wall Streeters don't much care about the Dow, based on a mere 30 blue-chip stocks. More broadly based market measures such as the Standard & Poor's 500 and the Nasdaq composite index have already hit record highs. The breaching of the 3000 barrier may have more psychological than economic significance. "The Dow is purely the public's index. No money manager whom I know pegs his or her results to the Dow Jones," says Wharton School finance professor Jeremy Siegel. When adjusted for inflation, even the Dow has seen more spectacular days...
Traditionalist graduate boards are yet another barrier to admitting women to the clubs. The alumni generally have control over the clubhouses, and so have the final word on any major policy questions. Needless to say, the alumni tend to be a bit less progressive than their progeny...
Belize has rain forest, jaguars, waterfalls, toucans and, after Australia's, the largest coral barrier reef in the world. It was also one of the great centers of Mayan civilization. Ruins -- still largely unrestored, insufficiently studied and besieged by tomb robbers -- dot the lowland forests: the pyramids of Xunantunich and Altun Ha and the vast complex of Caracol, which in the 6th to 7th centuries was the rival of Tikal, across the Guatemalan border...
...such as the Turneffe Islands, that are geared up for sporting tourism, mainly scuba diving, snorkeling and line fishing; or a small plane whisks you north to San Pedro on Ambergris Cay, a thin digit of land that protrudes south from the Mexican border. To the east is the barrier reef, which runs parallel to the coast, less than a mile offshore. To the west are mangroves and shallow flats, and then the low featureless Mosquito Coast. San Pedro, in between, is a pleasant town of ramshackle wooden buildings on stilts or cinder blocks, with a few new condos...