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There's growing evidence to support that claim. The Quarterly Journal of Economics published a study in 2002 showing that students who were accepted at top schools but for various reasons went to less selective ones were earning just as much 20 years later as their peers from more highly selective colleges. Much of the old-boy networking value has diminished in an increasingly performance-based economy: only seven CEOs from the current top 50 FORTUNE 500 companies were Ivy League undergraduates. In an economy in which people typically change jobs seven or eight times and new fields open...
...management industry. "The big gain for Singapore is not to take assets away from Europe," he says. "The big gain is to attract assets from within its own region. And [Singapore] is doing that tremendously." For now, though, it still has a long way to go before it can claim to be a wealth-management capital on a par with Switzerland. Assets under management at Singapore private banks total about $200 billion, says Ong Chong Tee, deputy managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. That compares with $3.71 trillion in Switzerland...
...mystery. With international aid groups struggling to determine the extent of damage caused by July's torrential rains and floods, Seoul-based NGO Good Friends last week reported that the disaster left more than 54,700 dead or missing and 2.5 million homeless?a startling contradiction of Pyongyang's claim that "hundreds" were dead. Good Friends also warned that large areas of farmland were washed out, raising the specter of another famine, reminiscent of the one that cost the lives of as many as 2 million North Koreans in the mid-1990s. "It is a very horrific and devastating situation...
...reward; and the right middle frontal, which helps govern tasks requiring more than ordinary thought. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) looks for such busy, well-oxygenated areas. Get a hit in all three zones, and you may have a liar. That is what No Lie MRI and Cephos claim they can do, with an accuracy...
...from the pool of new believers. "When converts are trying to find their way in their new religion, they are vulnerable to the influence of extremists," says Didier-Yacine Beyens, former president of Belgium's Muslim Executive and a convert. "They can sometimes be persuaded by radical preachers who claim to represent the 'true' voice of Islam, when in fact they represent nothing of the sort...