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...medical schools across the nation set records for first-year enrollment, Harvard and other Ivies are holding out. According to figures released last week by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), a record-breaking 17,759 students enrolled in medical school this fall, a 2.3 percent increase from last year. A study conducted in 2005 by the U.S. Council on Graduate Medical Education indicated that the nation faces a deficit of around 85,000 physicians, or roughly 10 percent of the workforce, by 2020. In 2006, the AAMC recommended a 30 percent increase in medical school enrollment...
...loss.A week later, Harvard wasted no time in getting back on track.Sophomore defender Lizzy Nichols scored on a free kick in the first minute of play to open the scoring for the Crimson, which scored three first-half goals en route to a 4-2 victory over Ivy League leader Princeton Saturday at Ohiri Field.The goal was the first of the season for Nichols, who led the team in scoring a year ago.“[Scoring early] wasn’t something we had really done this season, and it’s something we’ve been...
...Wintner found immediate success, rowing in the first freshman eight during his rookie season and earning a spot in the varsity boat his sophomore year. At the beginning of the 2006 spring season, Wintner was the only sophomore seated in the varsity eight—a feat for any first-year member of the Harvard varsity, but one especially remarkable given that he had picked up an oar for the first time just a season earlier. “Within a year, he was able to give all the guys who had been rowing for four or five years...
...pooh-bahs, who were concerned about the metro region's slight population, lousy stadium, capricious weather and high altitude. When baseball finally caved, its reward came swiftly: the Rockies' opening day drew 80,227 to old Mile High Stadium--still the largest single-game turnout in baseball history--and first-year attendance totaled 4.5 million. These were happy days, particularly when hitter-friendly Coors Field was christened in 1995 and the team scooted into the NL playoffs...
...focus on social enterprise is what we really need to focus on,” said Josy W. Hahn, a first-year doctoral student at the School of Public Health. “We focus too much on the existing institutions in the classroom...