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Harvard's yield, the percentage of students admitted who actually enroll in the school, usually falls somewhere between 73 and 74 per cent. Last year's yield was 74.8 per cent, a 1.6 per cent increase over the previous class, Fitzsimmons said...
...advisers understand that science takes time and money. His 1981 budget proposal reverses the disturbing trend in science policy during the past 15 years that had severely limited the funds available to certain researchers. Carter's new budget proposes investing more money than ever, $33.7 billion (up 12 per cent from last year) in America's scientific research and development. Carter's allocation is especially unusual in an election year. While the pressure for spending cutbacks increases daily, he encourages scientific progress...
...year store of information in virology, cell biology and genetics, gathered by workers who could not even imagine the techniques of today, was necessary for the recent breakthroughs. University professors led this advance, and Carter has responded by raising the funds arriving at college campuses by 11 per cent...
Lisa Harrison, Jackie Corrigan, and Ellie Cunningham, feeling the effects of the flu, played courageously for the Crimson in the second, fourth and sixth positions. Corrigan and Harrison, both freshmen, emerged victorious, while Cunningham, obviously not 100 per cent, lost a tough match in four games...
...Jack H. Mendelson, professor of Psychiatry, and Dr. Nancy K. Mello, associate professor of Psychology, reported in Science magazine that ten heroin addicts voluntarily reduced their heroin consumption by 69 to 98 per cent after using buprenorphine...