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...cars and onto buses and trains, as the number of Americans using mass transportation reached record levels in the first quarter of this year, up 3% to 2.6 billion trips. If fuel costs remain high, transport officials see 2008 ridership exceeding last year's total of 10.3 billion, the highest mark in 50 years...
...vote by secret ballot on whether to grant citizenship to their neighbors. The failure is a blow to the right-wing Swiss People's Party, which rode a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment to a plurality in parliament. About 22% of Swiss residents are foreigners--one of the highest rates in Europe--and the party exploited rising xenophobia in its referendum campaign with ads depicting dark hands snatching Swiss passports...
...released in 1997, the seven-part series has sold more than 375 million copies. Translated into more than 64 languages, including Latin, the novels have spawned a crazed international following that has made Rowling—once a poor, single mother writing on napkins—the highest-earning novelist in history...
These students represent Harvard’s best and brightest—juniors and seniors are invited to apply only if their cumulative grade point average is one of the highest in their field of study...
...Hyman was not alone. The 1990s were a coming out party for all things interdisciplinary at Harvard, as former University President Neil L. Rudenstine was tasked by the University’s highest governing body with uniting Harvard’s disparate elements...