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Just how could an institution, filled with over-achievers and motivated students, lag so far behind the large state universities in college athletics? Why is it a major accomplishment when the only Ivy participant in the NCAA basketball tournament actually reaches the second round, let alone the Sweet Sixteen...
Ultimately, our best hope may be that even where governments lag, their people understand both the stakes and the urgent need for action. When I visited China, I met with environmentalists in the scenic city of Guilin. One woman spoke passionately of growing environmental awareness at the grassroots. But this movement cannot take hold and succeed, she told me, without our help. "If Americans don't want to give up this good opportunity," she said, "you have to take action...
That's changing. Environmentalism is teaching the world's citizens, governments and corporations to think long term--to realize that lag times and lead times in the dynamics of atmosphere and climate are decades long, and to think of forests, oceans and aquifers as "multigeneration equity." It turns out that environmental problems are solvable. It's just that it takes focused effort over a decade or three to move toward solutions, and the solutions sometimes take centuries. Environmentalism teaches patience...
...your mutual funds have been doing? Montgomery Asset Management is rolling out a family of "focused funds" called Stock Solutions that will put its investments into more "transparent" portfolios. Fund owners will have online access to information on stock holdings and their allocations, albeit with a two-week lag (instead of the three months or six months it takes most fund companies). That way, you can dump a fund sooner if you don't like its dogs...
...chemistry and physics departments are no exceptions to the rule--while the proportion of Asian-American students in most science and math concentrations exceeds 17 percent, the proportions of blacks and Latinos tend to lag behind their respective College-wide figures...