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Take Kenya. The sub-Saharan nation ranks abysmally on many basic measures, such as favoritism in decisions of government officials (115th) and business impact of malaria (113th), but on some more sophisticated metrics it does quite well--eighth for legal rights tied to the financial markets and 31st for quality of scientific-research institutions. Skipping the basics while nailing the more complicated stuff is a counterintuitive yet increasingly widespread trend--think of the places in Africa that leaped from no phones to cell phones, bypassing landlines--but whether a country can excel in the long run without a more stable...
...eighth grade and ninth grade I started going into Manhattan to go to record stores,” he says. “The DJing came as a result of being very interested in hip-hop culture and wanting to somehow find...
...freshman Claire Richardson led the Harvard cross country teams to top-eight finishes at the NCAA Northeast Regional meet on Saturday, rounding out the 2007 cross country season for the Crimson. The men’s team finished seventh in a 34-team field, while the women were eighth out of the same field.Holmquest, Harvard’s top finisher at the Ivy League Heptagonals Championships two weeks before, finished 23rd overall out of 235 competitors, clocking in at 30:29.95. “I got out pretty well, pretty controlled,” Holmquest said...
...participated in only one race this season, finishing eighth in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet on Sept...
Megan Coulter, a Mascoutah, Ill., eighth-grader, served two after-school detentions last week. Her offense? Hugging two friends and therefore violating the Mascoutah Middle School's ban on public displays of affection...