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According to Prasse-Freeman, Pennsylvania and Princeton regularly engage in a highly unethical practice known as "over-recruiting." Essentially, more players are recruited than needed to fill spots, and only the best of the crop are encouraged to stay...
...reality of genetically improved foods is far more benign. Whether you know it or not, so-called biotech foods have already been incorporated into the food we eat on a daily basis. Half of the U.S. soybean crop is already genetically altered, and a quarter of the corn planted has been engineered. These crops are used routinely by large companies that manufacture products served in Harvard's dining halls...
...much of the new crop, DOA was not a moment too soon. But the backlash also caught three of TV's brightest, most heartfelt programs--Felicity, Roswell and Freaks and Geeks--each of which happens to feature protagonists not yet old enough to drink, and each of which is counting on creative fan support and deus ex machinas to keep it from becoming a teen angel...
...macroeconomic situation in order," says James Adams, the World Bank director for the country. Inflation has fallen below 7%, and the GDP is growing 4% a year; European sedans glide through the streets of the capital, Dar es Salaam, and imported goods fill the shops. Mining and cash-crop exports are up. R.J. Reynolds refurbished an old cigarette factory. The country established a stock exchange. "There's no question that opening up trade has transformed Tanzania," Adams says...
...would all be rosy were it not for the 15 million to 18 million people--more than half the population--living in dire poverty, with 12.5 million of them unable to afford the most basic needs. These men and women, almost all subsistence or small-plot cash-crop farmers, have been structurally adjusted half to death. Though Adams points to progress--51% of Tanzanians now survive on $1 a day or less, down from 65% in the mid-1980s--his statistic makes Tanzanian analysts laugh bitterly, because it misses the fact that everything in a farmer's life costs more...