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According to Fitzsimmons, having a parent who graduated from Harvard or Radcliffe will tip the scale slightly in the admissions process. He added that legacy status is not the only factor explaining their higher success rate in admissions. Children of alumni often recognize the difficulty of gaining admission because of their parents’ familiarity with the University, and thus are “self-selecting,” he said...
...well-known for its incredibly zealous fan-base—the researchers asserted the findings were applicable more generally. The brothers also concluded that referees exhibit biases even on neutral soil. “When we included the team itself, the name of the team as a factor, that was also significant,” Ryan said. “There is a suggestion that even when controlling for skill differences, certain teams are just better at getting home advantage.” —Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...
...here, today--to begin setting the broken climate right. The solutions range from changing your lightbulbs to checking your tire pressure to planting a bamboo fence. We tell you what the impact of each initiative is, when it can start to produce results and when the feel-good factor outweighs the real value. Thottam began to feel the pressure to act even before she started to work on this issue. "My daughter is almost 9 months old," she says. "I am aware in a way I wasn't a year ago of what climate change can mean for the future...
...Fosado says the region's nascent pro-choice movement is simply "counteracting" the Church's own device of erasing the public health factor from the discussion. That conversation may be more open now in Latin America - but at the same, it's giving an already socially fractured continent one more issue to divide...
Despite advances in technology, typing may be the deciding success factor. The OQO2 differs from the FlipStart in featuring a slide-out keyboard rather than a traditional clamshell top that flips open for laptop-like input. "My mother forced me to take touch typing in high school, and I've always been glad for that," Allen says. He argues that the FlipStart's flat bottom lets users put it down to type comfortably...