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...flights are nearly full (and that you may be squished in a middle seat). Carriers have eliminated all sorts of amenities--from snacks to pillows and blankets--and analysts expect the financial recovery to continue into next year. Standard & Poor's estimates that the top 10 U.S. carriers will earn $4 billion in 2007. And the expanded international routes should bolster profits going forward. "New flights are often leading-edge indicators that can stimulate underserved routes," says an airline executive. "And with the exception of the competitive North Atlantic, these can be very lucrative flights...
...earn an I.B. diploma, students must prove written and spoken proficiency in a second language, write a 4,000-word college-level research paper, complete a real-world service project and pass rigorous oral and written subject exams. Courses offer an international perspective, so even a lesson on the American Revolution will interweave sources from Britain and France with views from the Founding Fathers. "We try to build something we call international mindedness," says Jeffrey Beard, director general of the International Baccalaureate Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. "These are students who can grasp issues across national borders. They have an understanding...
During the summers off from Harvard, Fujimoto traveled to Alaska to earn “good money” working in salmon canneries. The 1942 edition of the Harvard Album, a class yearbook, noted that Fujimoto received the Edmund Ira Scholarship while he was here...
Discoursing on self image in society might earn you points in section, but what if you felt so threatened by how others perceive you that you were frightened to go to section, period? If venturing into public worries you because you are preoccupied with an perceived flaw in your appearance, a new Harvard study might help. Dr. Sabine Wilhelm, associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and founding director of the Body Dysmorphic Disorder Clinic and Research Unit at Mass. General Hospital, is currently recruiting subjects for the second phase of a clinical study testing the effectiveness of cognitive...
Students should be required to take two half-courses of PE in their freshman or sophomore years, much like they are required to take Expos. Varsity athletes could earn one half-course of credit for each year of participation in their sport, and club sport athletes could earn up to but not more than one half-course of credit. Class offerings could include anything from “Rock Body Boot camp,” a class offered at Stanford University, to “Scuba Rescue Diving,” one of the University of California at Santa Cruz?...