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From advising to sections to the Core, this generation’s curricular review may well fix a cornucopia of long-standing problems at the College. And as long as the next stages of the process are open to the scrutiny of the undergraduate community, this unexciting start might still inspire the participation of students at the College, who for the most part haven’t caught on to University Hall’s curricular review craze. Yet there remain a number of ways this whole undertaking could fail students—reforms that benefit administrators more than undergraduates...
...annual Fortune 500 survey, the pharmaceutical industry topped the list of the most profitable industries, with a return of 17% on revenue." That 17% profit guarantees that new drugs will be in the pipeline when we need them. Can any other system, including government-run labs, produce such a cornucopia of lifesaving and life-enhancing cures at any price? Studies have shown that it costs $800 million to create a new drug and get it through FDA approval. Your story promoted Soviet-style price controls. Remove incentives, and you will get Soviet-style results and products. As a practicing physician...
...Puritanism,” Will writes, “inculcated Scrooge-like asceticism, deferral of gratification, green-eyeshade parsimony and nose-to-the-grindstone industriousness. But those led to accumulation, investment of surplus capital and, in time, prodigious production and a subversive—to Puritanism—cornucopia of material delights.” And having adopted the pedantic tone of a Just-So story, Will continues in that vein: “Soon there were department stores, those cathedrals of consumption.” America’s progression from the Mayflower to Macy?...
...Yard as the existing Quad Houses, and considerably closer to the main cluster of existing undergraduate housing. They will also be at the epicenter of Harvard’s future expanded campus (whereas the existing Quad Houses will be increasingly peripheral), thereby providing superb access to a cornucopia of resources and amenities we can only begin to imagine today...
Fatties, take note: the Z-Carb, made by boutique chocolatier HVC Lizard Chocolate in Norwalk, Conn., is part of the bulging cornucopia of ersatz sweets that is helping change the way millions of Americans snack. Catering to adherents of the high-protein, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet, foodmakers are filling out the $40 billion diet industry with alternative versions of their favorite sins, from marshmallows and margarita mix to biscotti and beer. And thanks to increasingly successful formulations of sugar substitutes, many members of this new generation of munchie killers are downright delicious. "They've come to my rescue," says Dallas...