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Another sign of program health is the demand for places in our student body. While many planning schools have suffered in recent years from declining applications, our own are up by 50 per cent since 1975 and by more than 350 per cent since the early 1970's when major curricular reform began. It appears that satisfied graduates and employers have spread the word that Harvard provides high quality education...
...panel of leading authorities on Chinese food policy concluded last night that China's plans to increase its annual agricultural growth rate to 4 per cent by the year 2000 are impractical...
Enormous regional variations in food production contribute to uneven distribution, he said. With 17 per cent of China's people living below the base level nutrition standards, the average life span is about 60 years, he added...
Seventy-four per cent of the Class of '82 received first-choice assignments, compared to last year's 71 per cent, Dingman said. Only 14 per cent of this year's freshmen did not get one of their top three choices, he added...
...Sahara, as by a huge purchase of U.S. grain by Russia. As Nick Eberstadt of Harvard's Center for Population Studies noted in the New York Review of Books, Feb. 19, 1976, "India could never have made this kind of purchase: it would have cost 3 per cent of its gross national product, almost 25 per cent of its annual government revenue...