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...choosing to attend Harvard, we chose to surround ourselves with the academic upper crust, and we should therefore be compared with and evaluated against the performance of our peers. And if the coveted Harvard diploma is to mean what it is meant to mean--namely the combined McKinsey, Mozart and Mercedes of the academic world--then our GPA's should reflect that rigor. Even if the average Harvard students can perform above the average elsewhere, they shouldn't expect--or be able--to do as well at Harvard...
...Awash? It won't seem that way around budget time this summer, when worthy programs start lining up for their piece of the pie - and the pork-seeking missiles known as members of Congress are fighting over the crust. But for now, there does seem to be plenty to go around...
...that is indeed the case, Earth's oceans and crust appeared only 200 million to 300 million years after its formation, when the planet was still being bombarded by large objects from space. One Mars-size chunk, by that calculation, would have slammed into Earth only 50 million years before the crystal formed, ejecting enough material to create the moon. Says University of Wisconsin (Madison) geologist John Valley: "Perhaps the moon formed earlier than we thought, or by a different process...
Even more intriguing is what this rock means for life. If Earth wasn't a seething ball of magma at the time, but cool enough for water, a crust and a biosphere, life might have arisen a half-billion years earlier than previously believed...
...reach Harvard, and the temptations to strive to be "well-liked" are strong. In an atmosphere where there are more people like you--bright--than ever before, the desire to be popular is certainly present. There are final clubs to be punched, extracurricular events to be conquered and upper-crust socializing to be done. You need to know everybody in your dorm, your house and your Yard. If you don't personally know the big men on campus, you certainly need to know everything about them...