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...commitment that Chipotle founder Steve Ells made years ago, not just because sustainable ingredients were better for the planet but because they tasted better too - a philosophy he calls Food with Integrity. It's not cheap for Chipotle - food makes up more than 32% of its costs, the highest in the fast-food industry. But to Ells, the taste more than compensates, and Chipotle's higher prices haven't stopped the company's rapid growth, from 16 stores in 1998 to over 900 today. "We put a lot of energy into finding farmers who are committed to raising better food...
...Don’t just pick the concentration you think will have the highest concentration (guffaw) of fun classes exactly like the one you just took and are obsessed with. Nor should you go with the concentration that you think will cover as many topics as possible. Just because you’re an art and architecture concentrator doesn’t mean that you won’t get to take your fair share of math and science courses (in fact, Gen Ed will shove a few down your throat). And don’t forget about related field...
...resources data, alumni giving and graduation and retention rates. We're not comparing all 1,400 schools. We're dividing them up into 10 categories, like national universities and liberal arts. We assign a weight to each of the variables. The peer survey, or the academic reputation, is the highest-weighted variable - it's 25%. (Read about a new college-rankings system...
...couple of months ago, it was reported that Clemson University was trying to manipulate the rankings through strategic voting - giving competitors a below-average rating. The university denied the claim. Is that something you try to police? We definitely do. We throw out the two highest ratings and the two lowest ratings for each school, so we have some statistical safeguards to prevent any strategic voting from impacting any school's score. And the fact that the schools' scores have been stable - there's been academic research to show that - is proof in and of itself that schools aren...
That reason is our out-of-control, highest-in-the-world, wiggety-wiggety-wack health-care costs. They're gobbling one-sixth of our economy, and without reform they'll devour one-third of our economy by 2040; the average family's annual premiums are on track to exceed $45,000 in 2008 dollars. They're already destroying businesses small and gigantic; unaffordable health-care liabilities are one of the main reasons GM and Chrysler went bust. And since half of all health care is paid for with tax dollars, these exploding costs are a fiscal, as well...