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This troubling trend is partially due to Japan's chronically low birth rate. The country's student body is shrinking. The number of 18-year-olds - a group that accounts for 90% of first-year college students - plunged 35% between 1990 and 2007, from 2 million to 1.3 million, according...
If the peace is to hold, however, it is important to understand the forces underlying it - to recognize that Kenya's near-death experience was caused not by ethnicity alone, but by its toxic mix with politics. Because Kenya's constitution vests disproportionate powers in the presidency, the ethnic group...
Getting energy cheaply has never been more necessary than it is now, with oil recently breaking its all-time inflation-adjusted high price. The era of inexpensive power is over, perhaps for good, which means it's time to extend beyond energy efficiency to energy-scavenging, harnessing the sort of...
One of the most abundant forms of unused energy in the environment is the vibrations that are a by-product of motion. Think of the rumblings of a bridge in heavy traffic or even the pulse of a dance floor. That's essentially free movement, and scientists can transform that...
Anthropology Professor Richard W. Wrangham and his wife, Elizabeth Ross, will take over as Currier House masters beginning July 1, the University announced yesterday. The appointments come just over a year after former House Masters Patricia O’Brien and Joseph L. Badaracco, the deputy dean of the College...