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...have already experienced a rough spring, with no relief on the horizon. They have watched winter-wheat crops wither and die. Kansas normally produces 360 million to 420 million bushels of wheat annually; the estimate for this year is 185 million bushels. "Personally, I think those estimates are a bit high," says Mike Brown, president of the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers. "I hope they're on the low side, but I wouldn't be surprised if [the crop] was below 150 million...
Finally, the season ended on a bit of an up note with a 2-0 victory over Brown and a snowy 2-0 loss at Dartmouth. In both games, Harvard played better than it had earlier in the season, if only slightly...
...think we still need to educate faculty a bit," Newhouse says. "It's important that faculty are open to the need in many cases to look outside the academy for jobs...
...manner in which our current Ph.D.s are faring in the job market does not tell us much about what we should do about graduate admissions," Shepsle says. "I think the general feeling is that the academic marketplace is contracting a bit and we ought to be a little prudent but not overreact...
Metrick describes similar criteria for the social sciences. He says that after reading a summa thesis, he should come away feeling that "I understand the world a bit better than I did before I read...