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...loss, though, puts Harvard in the precarious position of having its fate rest on factors well outside its control. A mere fraction of a percentage point in the Rating Percentage Index rankings could be the difference between a second-consecutive NCAA appearance and a disappointing season...
...question is appropriate, given that students without financial support from Harvard had to dole out $18,350 for tuition, room, board, fees and health insurance for the spring semester alone. Parents are forced to wonder whether they should have sent their children to a public school for a fraction of the cost—the University of California at Berkeley, for example, costs about $22,400 a year for an out-of-state student and $3,663 for a resident of the Golden State. Would Berkeley, for one-tenth of the bill, have been a better deal for the Californians...
...That was a fraction of an inch from being a great goal,” Moore said...
...your photo phone - on either 3G or regular networks - to snap a picture of yourself, a Barbie, or a Stalin statue, plug in a message and send it as a surprisingly lifelike animation. FaceWave uses a statistical model of human faces to create video-quality messages with a fraction of the bandwidth and memory required by streaming video. In classic tech-visionary style, CEO Andrew Berend claims it will "break the link between celebrity and the people behind it." Tech Watch wouldn't go that far, but FaceWave does promise to make mobile communication less abstract, and certainly more...
...their conversations, it is the priority of completing the mission with the least risk to the troops they lead. Another striking feature of their discussions is how much time is devoted to the concern of limiting the dangers to Iraqi civilians. If Saddam cared about his own people a fraction as much as our military leadership does, there would be no crisis...