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State Championships. The dream of high school athletes across America doesn’t officially exist in college hoops, but the Harvard women’s basketball team still got a chance to celebrate. With its Wednesday night victory over the University of Massachusetts (6-9), the Crimson (8-4) has now beaten all five Division I basketball teams in the state...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Sweeps Massachusetts Teams with Win over Minutewomen | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...refer in your essay to a "veil of secrecy that has shrouded higher education" for a long time. What information don't colleges want people to have? There's the information that exists that they don't want you to know about, and then there's the information that doesn't exist that they don't want to exist. In the latter category, no one knows how much students learn at a given college or university. No one knows. The entire process for assessing learning is completely idiosyncratic and course based. Now in some cases there's good reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Colleges Accountable: Is Success Measurable? | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...dimming caused by an Earth-size planet would be easy enough for Kepler to notice too, and such smaller planets most likely exist. But to be in an orbit where the temperature is balmy enough to support life, the planet has to be about as far from its star as Earth is from the sun, making its orbit about a year long; and that, by definition, requires at least two years after the initial detection. "Have patience," said Jon Morse, director of NASA's astronomy and physics division, to the assembled crowd. (See pictures of Earth from space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five New Planets: The Kepler Telescope's on a Roll | 1/6/2010 | See Source »

...fled the ongoing civil strife in Somalia have untreated traumas that can leave young people susceptible to the influence of outside forces. "It is taboo for Somalis to seek help for psychological problems. It is part of the culture that problems such as depression and mental illnesses do not exist. And it is exactly among families with war traumas that we see their children being drawn to radical groups," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Denmark's Somali Community: Breeding Ground for Extremists? | 1/6/2010 | See Source »

...uncommon for would-be terrorists to claim an al-Qaeda link where one doesn't exist, but counterterrorism experts say several aspects about the Detroit incident point to a pattern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism on Flight 253: Does It Fit al-Qaeda's Pattern? | 12/26/2009 | See Source »

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