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...just 381 last year. "Students see us as apologists for America," says Ian Bell, a professor of American literature at Keele University, where enrollment in the American-studies department has halved since Bush took office. "They don't want to be branded by the degree." Interest has been so low at Lancaster University that administrators have decided to phase out their program; the 14 freshmen who entered it in October will be the last to do so. According to Alasdair Spark, a lecturer in American studies at the University of Winchester, high school students selecting their majors are particularly sensitive...
...powerful countries," says Brunilda Kondi, a lecturer in American culture at Albania's University of Tirana. To help the university keep up with growing demand for courses, the American Embassy there organizes summer programs on U.S. culture. In other corners of Europe, even where opinions of America are low, a desire to learn English and engage with the West is strong enough to attract students. According to Pew, only 12% of Turks view America positively. But, says Tanfer Emin Tunc, an assistant professor at Ankara's Hacettepe University, enrollment in the Department of American Culture and Literature has jumped...
Still, the picture isn't one of unrelenting gloom. Interest rates are low, unlike in the early 1990s, and the price of oil has dropped from its peak earlier this summer as demand slows from the cooling global economy. That's good news for consumers everywhere. But the signs of economic woe still add up to a minefield that European governments, central banks and other policymakers will have to navigate carefully. Here are some of the mines that lie in wait for them...
Merema M. Ahmed was a high school senior in Fargo, N.D., when she first heard about QuestBridge, a college matching program for low-income students.A 4.0 student, she was still unsure how she would afford college. She said her family’s financial situation was “definitely not well-off or stable.”The program’s early application deadline meant a scramble to research as many schools as quickly as possible. “Being from the midwest, I don’t know too much about Ivy League schools...
Matthias Stadtfeld, the lead author for Hochedlinger’s paper on the use of harmless adenoviruses, cautioned that the efficiency of producing iPS cells using this method is “already very, very low...