Word: brightest
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...every kid who's admitted, there's another kid who doesn't get the space. There's a cost there. It hurts the quality of intellectual discussion in the classroom, the vitality of the university. These universities are nonprofits whose mission should be to identify the best and brightest students. Their mission shouldn't be to perpetuate aristocracy in America...
...Internet tycoon with a fortune of nearly $500 million, thanks to the success of the Shenzhen company he founded in 1998, Tencent, China's largest instant-messaging service with 532 million registered users. The company's home is a tidy, landscaped campus where employees, the best and brightest from universities in Beijing and Shanghai, come to work in blue jeans instead of sewing them together in sweatshops. Some of the software engineers at Ma's R&D center earn $5,000 a month, 50 times a typical Chinese factory salary...
...CONTRAST RATIO This ratio (e.g., 600 to 1) represents the difference between a screen's brightest and darkest colors. A higher ratio is better. "Contrast as a concept is really important," says Poor. "The blacker your blacks, the more punch you have to your colors." But TV makers use differing standards to calculate the numbers, so comparing them is "almost useless," says Poor. So how do you judge contrast? First view the TV from the front, then see how badly the image fades from the side. If all the sets are on the same channel, it's fairly easy...
...with improving their rankings, which can be done in part by attracting high-scoring students with offers of an all-expenses-paid education. Although need-based grants still make up the overwhelming majority of all scholarships, the giving has been tilting slowly but surely toward the best and the brightest. A decade ago, 90% of state-college grants were need-based. Today it's barely...
...make America believe that she really is a Barbara Bush-type supporter, that she really wants her husband to succeed in front her. And that is what she needs to play up—rather than push down—as she steps into the country’s brightest spotlight. Certainly, many Americans have learned that she’s not a “cookies and tea” woman. Many know she’s tough and know she’s smart, but it’s going to take a lot more than pink sweaters...