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...winnowing may begin even before students arrive at Harvard, as some experience the rarefied pleasure of applying to one or more pre-orientation programs. The Freshman Urban Program, for instance, gleefully informs applicants that: “Due to limited space and resources, we can only accept a fraction of those who apply, and we maintain an active wait-list.” And this is nothing compared to the bewildering array of “comps” that await students after they register. Sometimes it seems that what actually binds all Harvard’s 6,000-plus...
Designer handbags make a statement, but no self-respecting fashionista wants to keep repeating herself. Help is here from Handbag Hire HQ www.handbaghirehq.co.uk, which rents luxury bags to customers in the U.K. and Ireland. For $15 a month, clients gain access to the latest must-have accessories at a fraction of their retail value: the $990 Mulberry Bayswater, the $1,200 Louis Vuitton Hampstead and the $2,500 Chloé Paddington are available for $50, $60 and $70 per week, respectively. Customers receive their orders by post within two days...
This arrangement is great for the winner, "Wow, I just made $1,500 off a $1,000 investment!" But terrible for the loser, "I lost WHAT? But I only invested a fraction of that!" That's why being an individual or "retail" investor in the currency market is not for the faint of heart...
...Since dust particles are often several time larger than the devices that nanoscientists create, and temperature difference of a fraction of a degree can decrease the precision of an imaging device, LISE’s heavily-filtered 10,000-square foot cleanroom has less than 1,000 particles of dust per cubic foot. A typical urban environment has millions of particles per cubic foot...
...that disgraceful provision whereby no one of Asian or black descent could settle in Australia, was abandoned in the 1960s, never to be revived. Whole suburbs, like Cabramatta in western Sydney, have become Southeast Asian enclaves. Though Australia admits only some 85,000 legal immigrants a year, a minuscule fraction of its population, the Asian component is very visible and it excites xenophobia. The role of the Queen as head of state has a calming effect, suggesting that the "old" Anglo-Australia is still notionally within reach...