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...midwife Amazon.com and Google, and Apple?s Steve Jobs, vied for a piece of the Segway pie and did their bit to hype the machine before its anticlimactic launch. Doerr told TIME that Segway would become the fastest company to hit $1 billion in sales. Steve Jobs ventured its impact would equal that of the PC. If Segway has sold only 23,500 machines to date, it's hard to see how it could even have made back the $100 million spent developing the device...
...Harvard’s move comes with a potential escape-clause. The switch to a single-decision system would last for a “a two- to three-year trial period.” Harvard will “monitor the impact of this change and make sure that it does not have a negative impact on student quality,” University officials said in a press release...
...Financial Aid Initiative for low-income students has also spurred other schools, especially Yale, to expand its financial aid packages.We hope that eliminating early admissions altogether proves to be as influential as some of Harvard’s past innovations. Harvard’s unilateral action will have some impact, but if other institutions do not follow suit, higher education will still be tainted. At the very least, all schools (including Princeton, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania, for example) should eliminate binding early decision policies. These programs continue to disadvantage anyone eligible for any financial aid since binding programs...
...FACTS: The impact of the Boeing 767s damaged support columns and steel floor trusses, causing the inward collapse of perimeter columns, which pulled floors straight down. A misquote of a demolition expert propagated the explosives theory. Seismic spikes, caused by debris hitting the ground, were recorded 10 sec. after each tower started to fall...
...move comes with a potential escape-clause. University officials said in a press release that the switch to a single-decision system would last for a “a two- to three-year trial period.” Harvard will “monitor the impact of this change and make sure that it does not have a negative impact on student quality...