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Margot Gill, administrative dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), says that she and her colleagues plan to try to boost declining application numbers by spreading word of improvements before the next admissions cycle begins...
Lower pricing is only one factor driving consumers toward flat TVs. More and more television programming is offered in high-definition, or HDTV, format, which should boost LCD TV sales. (Traditional TVs can show HDTV programming, but sometimes not as crisply as LCD TVs, which are almost all HDTV ready in larger sizes.) In the not-too-distant future, flat TVs will be hooked up to PCs, which will record movies on a hard-disc drive. And then there's the get-the-neighbors-talking factor. Ritch Wheeler, 33, a sales manager for DaimlerChrysler from Denton, Texas, recently bought...
Specialists in the U.S. often transfer several embryos into the womb during in vitro fertilization (IVF) in hopes of boosting the chance that one of them will "take" and therefore boost their clinic's success rate. Studies suggest, however, that the odds of a successful pregnancy may be the same whether you implant one, two or three embryos. Many European countries have decided to restrict their IVF clinics to one or two embryos per pregnancy. Dr. Lockwood and other physicians think such a limit might make sense in the U.S. as well...
...draft is just being used as a tool by Democrats to get Bush," says Kirsten Steffey, a senior at Drake University in Iowa who plans to vote for Kerry. "It's just a distraction from issues I'm more concerned about." Hope as Democrats might, an Election Day boost for Kerry remains, like the draft itself, merely hypothetical. --By John Cloud. With reporting by Paige Bowers/ Atlanta, James Carney/Washington, Sarah Sturmon Dale/Minneapolis, Jeffrey Ressner/ Los Angeles, Betsy Rubiner/ Des Moines and other bureaus
...house. Like any good engineer, he thought outside the box: maybe he could get the speed without the wiring. The standard wireless Internet technology, wi-fi, was cheap and fast, but it worked only at a range of about 300 ft. What if there was a way to boost that range...