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...This troubling trend is partially due to Japan's chronically low birth rate. The country's student body is shrinking. The number of 18-year-olds - a group that accounts for 90% of first-year college students - plunged 35% between 1990 and 2007, from 2 million to 1.3 million, according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Simply put, there are fewer and fewer Japanese students to support a system that was built for heavier class loads. As a result, Japan's famously Darwinian educational environment, in which high school students crammed day and night...
German professor Peter J. Burgard said that the quorum is too low already, and that lowering it further might encourage even worse attendance at meetings...
...report said the survey remained valid, despite the low response rate, because respondent data matched data for the overall student parent population provided by GSAS administrators...
...approximately 3:45 a.m. Thursday, a "low-order" explosive device was detonated on the Times Square traffic island bounded by 43rd and 44th Streets, Broadway and Seventh Avenue. No one was injured and no suspects have been apprehended. "This was not a particularly sophisticated device," said New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who cautioned the explosive was nonetheless "capable of causing injury or death." At a news conference, Kelly brandished an unassuming green ammunition container - readily available, he said, in military supply stores - similar to that which held the crudely fashioned bomb. He said witnesses placed a hooded man with...
...There were only two major occasions when Huckabee seemed to sink beneath his ideals, once by pandering to the racially divisive confederate flag in South Carolina, and a second time by raising the issue of Mitt Romney's Mormon religion, for which he later apologized. But those low blows were easily forgotten in the larger tone he set for the campaign...