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...college, from the calculation. Folkers said this was done after meetings with university representatives revealed that some schools relied on early decision programs to help manipulate their yield in order to improve their rankings. Previously, yield made up 1.5 percent of a school’s total rank index score...
...meet an expected increase in production. And an August opinion poll by NFO Infratest showed that Germans were optimistic about the future of the economy for the first time since last September. Consumption is also beginning to inch up. GfK, a firm that tracks consumer trends, said its index of consumption rose from 4.2 in July to 4.5 in August, signalling that Germans are expected to spend more. "The digital sector is booming," says Marcus Neuhaus, manager of a ProMarkt electronics and appliance chain store on Berlin's trendy Kurfürstendamm. According to Neuhaus, sales of high...
...time to reach for the sunglasses, but Asia's economic storm is starting to clear. A brighter outlook for the remainder of 2003 propelled stock markets in South Korea and Hong Kong to 13-month highs last week; even Japan's moribund Nikkei index, which sunk to a 20-year low in late April, has since rebounded 35%. Meanwhile, retailers and real estate brokers in down-and-out Hong Kong say buyers seem to be slowly returning. "The general mood here has improved in the past two weeks," says Hong Kong Financial Secretary Henry Tang, predicting the economy will...
Land Of The Sun Is Rising European investors are missing out on one of the biggest stock-market rallies of the year - in Japan. As France's economy officially entered recession and Germany showed optimistic signs (and continued sputters), the Nikkei index of Japan's largest companies closed above 10,000 points last week for the first time in a year, and is up more than 30% from its low in April, outperforming the U.S. and many other markets. Behind the rise are signs that Japan's prolonged slump may be over. Foreign capital is pouring back into the stock...
...Academy of Pediatrics has called for its members to go beyond their routine tracking of height and weight. Pediatricians are being urged to identify children most at risk for obesity (taking into account birth weight, family history, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and other factors), then carefully track their body mass index--a ratio of weight to height--and watch for significant changes from year to year. Early intervention is key: University of Buffalo researchers have found that 86% of all obese children get that way before...