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...University of California, Santa Barbara, and Boston College—recognize the challenges these students encounter. Rather than leaving the students to sink or swim, they provide a host of options similar to the support system that we recommend Harvard put in place. Students who go through these programs link them to their ability to stay in college and to thrive as students navigating several complex worlds...
...Israel started building the barrier--part concrete, part chain-link fence--to prevent suicide bombers crossing over from the West Bank. When it is finished, it will be more than 400 miles long, zigzagging deep into Palestinian territory. But for graffiti artists, all that bare concrete is too great a temptation to resist. Just as Yosemite's El Capitan beckons the bravest of rock climbers, Israel's wall has become the ultimate challenge for members of the global street-art subculture. Banksy, the British guerrilla artist, has already sprayed the wall with a few of his ironic creations (my favorite...
...million--year--old "MISSING LINK" FOSSIL gets TV show and book deal...
...truth might be coming undone, however, thanks to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. According to the authors, evolutionary biologists John Finarelli of the University of Michigan and John Flynn of the American Museum of Natural History, there's a much murkier link than we thought between big brains and big societies. As it turns out, it was our favorite nonhuman critters - dogs - that threw off previous data...
...speed networks is allowing trains to challenge airlines on shorter trips even before deregulation comes into force. The Eurostar service - the lucrative 21⁄4-hour route between London and Paris - already controls 70% of the travel market between the two capitals. Opened in 2007, a high-speed rail link between Madrid and Barcelona that cut intercity travel time to 21⁄2 hours has grabbed 50% of that market. Similar effects have been seen in Paris-Lyon, Paris-Brussels and Hamburg-Berlin transport links, where domination by fast trains has led airlines to reduce or drop services altogether. "When...