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...clad waters of Newfoundland, as Canada’s 2008 seal hunt begins. The Canadian government has increased this year’s permits to allow the killing of 275,000 seals, 98 percent of them babies, in what Watson calls “the world’s largest marine slaughter.” And in spite of new government regulations designed to stop the live skinning and clubbing of seals, Watson says that his crews have already documented seals bleeding to death...
...admissions season— which has seen the largest college applicant pool ever—comes to a close, one immutable fact was confirmed by a recent Princeton Review survey: students still want to go to Harvard. A lot. For the first time ever, Harvard captured the top spot in The Princeton Review’s “College Hopes & Worries Survey” as the “dream college” undergraduate applicants would most like to attend if cost and acceptance were of no concern. For the past four years, that distinction had been held...
Obama's best shot at winning Pennsylvania, or at least closing the gap, is rallying Democrats in and around Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the state's two largest cities. So why is he spending so much time in central Pennsylvania? "This is good old-fashioned retail campaigning, with perhaps a feint to surprise and unbalance the Clinton campaign and force her to contest every delegate," said Donald Kettl, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. "In some of these communities, he's been playing to his base, such as the rally at Penn State. However, he's also...
...move means that the Medical School, one of the largest of the elite medical schools, will have a more generous financial aid program than all but a few of the nation’s colleges. The annual cost of attending the Medical School is approximately $65,000, according to school officials...
...Almost a quarter of the nation’s 25 largest education endowments are now led by women, compared to less than 10 percent a decade ago, according to the Wall Street Journal...