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...expects a levelling off,” Fitzimmons said of the 14 percent decrease. “And as attractive as American universities might be, China certainly is working a great deal to make its institutions more competitive.” John P. Gobok ’12, who grew up in the Philippines, said that the economic recession has made it less feasible for students in his native country to study in America. “Asian students still want to come to the U.S., but because of the expense, they’re choosing to stay in Asia...
...Indian. But our American accents were enough to promptly dismiss the official, after offering to provide us with any assistance we might need. I giggled smugly along with the rest of my family, but I pitied the policeman. I had always viewed my heritage as a burden because I grew up in a nation that was foreign to my parents. What an unpleasant surprise for my teenage self to find an entire country of people similarly stifled by their Indianness, even in their native land...
...government's enlightened policies have developed an expertise in water management that has spawned a host of profitable companies. Chief among them is Hyflux, a water-treatment company that purifies waste-, salt- and rainwater. Hyflux was started in 1989 by a chemistry graduate named Olivia Lum, who grew up so poor in a Malaysian village that rains regularly flooded her grandmother's small wooden house...
Going to the Dogs Some scientists acquired their fascination with dogs directly, but Hare's grew out of his research on chimpanzee cognition in the late 1990s, when he was part of a team of primatologists led by Michael Tomasello, now at Max Planck. A chimp can follow the gaze of other chimps and figure out what they can and cannot see. That's a skill that seems to be limited to great apes and humans. Tomasello and his team wondered if such a rare ability extended to hand gestures and tested chimps to see if they could understand pointing...
Senator Kennedy had the economic and political clout to challenge the powerful on behalf of the powerless and did so many times. To me, an African American who grew up in the South and was inspired--at times emboldened--by the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Kennedys, he did even more. Like King and like his brothers John and Robert, Ted spoke truth to power, but when black folk in the South who thought themselves powerless were moved to action by his message, he spoke truth to impotence and generated power. David L. Evans, CAMBRIDGE, MASS...