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...Flores Your story on the discovery of the remains of a primitive tribe of tiny cave-dwelling humans on the Indonesian island of Flores [Nov. 8] reported that its elephants may have swum the distance that separated Flores from the nearest land when the sea level was at its lowest. Could they also perhaps have had a role in getting Homo floresiensis onto the island? As there is already evidence of elephant migration, who is to say that some early hominids didn't hitch a ride or two on the backs of those buoyant beasts? Alfred Winsor Brown...
...sure, those numbers are part of a larger, nationwide trend of inequality in higher education. The Harvard Gazette cited some saddening, but unsurprising statistics: “A student from the highest income quartile and the lowest aptitude quartile (as measured by the standardized test scores) was as likely to be enrolled in college as a student from the lowest income quartile and the highest aptitude quartile...
...interception return for a touchdown was the fourth 100-plus yard interception return in Harvard history. The last came in 1969, when Neil Hurley ’70 returned a pick 100 yards for a score…Robert Carr’s 56 yards rushing was his second lowest total of the season. Cornell held him to only 41 yards on Sept. 25…While the Crimson also won 10 games in 1906, that team also had one loss, making this year’s team possibly the best Harvard squad since the Crimson went...
...states which voted to ban gay marriage have among the highest divorce rates in the country. Based on 2003’s Census Bureau figures, America’s favorite “values” sinkhole and bastion of Godless hedonism—Massachusetts—has the lowest divorce rate in the country...
...Zhejiang. Expecting to find shadow bankers charging exorbitant rates, they instead discovered that underground interest rates were only marginally higher than what banks offer and repayment terms were better. This steady source of finance has given Zhejiang not only China's most vibrant private economy but also the lowest level of nonperforming bank loans in the country. Permitting informal lending allows state-run banks, which provide most of their loans to state-owned enterprises, to "focus on bigger, reliable companies, [while] smaller ones finance themselves in other ways," says Bao Sihu, head of the CBRC in Yuhuan county, home...