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...bring together the most interesting people in the world between the ages of 18 and 23, but it's just an amazing coincidence. According to this theory, Harvard apparently plays no role either in the selection of students or in their decision to come here, an admissions yield higher than any other university in the country...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: Finding Friends Among Strangers | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...while we stand by refusing to make moral decisions, basking in our intellectual sophistication or confused helplessness, people die. DARRYL C. LEE '01 05/04/1999 Editorial 10 Higher Minimum Wages Will Lead to Labor Ceiling To the editors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kosovo Coverage Clouded by Apathy and Laziness | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

According to the author of "Hedge Fund Edge" Mark Boucher and most experts in the field, a higher wage for these guards does not put a floor under wages, as its advocates surmise, but it puts a ceiling on low skilled labor employment levels. These guards who do not possess the skills to justify their wage increase will simply be cut out of the job market entirely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kosovo Coverage Clouded by Apathy and Laziness | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...becoming the most influential chemistry book of the century. His biggest biological success came from his 1951 proposal of the alpha-helical fold for protein molecules, which everybody else thought were too large and complex to study. His findings were quickly verified, and Linus' confidence was never higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watson on Pauling | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

Until this time, nearly all transistors had utilized germanium because it was easier to prepare in pure form. Silicon offered advantages, at least in theory, mainly because devices made from it could operate at higher temperatures. Also, silicon is a very common chemical element, whereas germanium is relatively rare. Silicon, however, melts at a much higher temperature, making its purification and processing more difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Solid-State Physicist WILLIAM SHOCKLEY | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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