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While the number of applicants to Harvard, Brown and MIT surged, the number of students accepted did not change much, resulting in a lower early admittance percentage...
Increasingly, it looks as though children with Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder, rather than being brats by choice, are really governed by a medical condition. According to a study in the current issue of the medical journal the Lancet, children with ADHD may have a lower-than-normal amount of the chemical dopamine, which is associated with concentration and motivation. ADHD children, says the report, have an average of 70 percent more dopamine transporters in their brains than other children - evidence, researchers think, that these brains developed the extra transporters in a vain effort to compensate for a lack of dopamine...
From a demographic perspective, 48.4 percent of this year's early admits were female, up from last year's rate of 47.3 percent. Geographic diversity was similar to last year, with a slightly higher number of admits from New England and mid-Atlantic regions and slightly lower admits from Canada and abroad...
...seat eatery, which will also offer non-bagel options like hamburgers in addition to beer and wine on its lower level, hopes to give away more than 40,000 bagels today...
...first would be a unelected service organization to work with the administration for student services. There's a reason federal bureaucrats aren't subject to election: competency and political savvy are not necessarily related. No one should have to plaster their name across campus for the opportunity to lower phone rates. And what if elections became competitive, the fervent wish of the supporters of council downsizing? Do we really want to turn away students who have a desire to make Harvard a better place...