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...college, often referred to as the College of Arts and Crafts, is the largest of the schools with departments in the liberal arts as well as the natural and life sciences. The college also offers very popular interdisciplinary majors, such as biological basis of behavior and politics, philosophy and economics. Some college students have an inferiority complex, because they do not have a clear professional path to follow after graduation. But most enjoy the flexibility the college offers...
...addition, the university has dedicated itself to bolstering the humanities with additional funding. The Leland Stanford Junior Museum, with one of the largest Rodin collection in the world, was re-opened after 10 years of renovation early this year. And Stanford's "fuzzy" social science and humanities departments, especially history, political science, and economics are large, strong, and well-funded...
...statewide program. Texas, New Mexico and Pennsylvania may follow. In New York City, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is thinking of introducing vouchers, though his schools' chancellor has threatened to resign if the mayor does. Privately funded voucher programs have sprung up in an additional 39 cities, and this week the largest such program in the U.S., founded by Wal-Mart scion John Walton and financier Ted Forstmann, is scheduled to award scholarships of as much as $1,600 each to 40,000 low-income students across the U.S., a number equivalent to the roll call in a city the size...
Enrico's revolution has already put Pepsi in a position where it can hurt Coke. For the first time in years, the Big Red growth machine is double-clutching, feeling the dark side of globalization in places like Brazil, its third largest market, where the recent devaluation hurt business severely. Coke's sales are also weak across Asia, and the company's huge investment in Russia is underwater. Pepsi needs to make a dent in Coke away from home, because the Atlantans derive most of their profits outside the U.S., where Coke outsells Pepsi...
...Healthcare (now merged with Aetna) and some Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans helped bankroll three of the recent studies, an act of good corporate citizenship that seemed to signal a willingness to keep paying for transplant treatments in breast-cancer cases. A doctor working with Kaiser-Permanente, the nation's largest HMO, offers more direct reassurance. "It will be up to the doctor and the patient," predicts oncologist Louis Fehrenbacher...