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...Migration's Two-Way Streeet Your map showing migration trends in Europe showed 33,500 Australians migrating to the U.K. each year [Dec. 3]. To paint a more realistic picture, you should also have included the numbers migrating from Britain to Australia (around 70,000 in 2006). Evelyn Krull, Adelaide, South Australia...
Last year, my hall in Thayer had a bulletin board with a map of the United States labeled “Where We Are From.” Attached to the map were pieces of orange paper with the names of all the hall’s residents. The coasts were covered in these little slips: San Franciscans crowded into the Pacific Ocean; Manhattanites spilled over into New Jersey. In between the orange masses was a wide expanse of empty map with three exceptions: single slips on Chicago, Minneapolis, and St. Louis. Aside from Florida and Texas, the Southern states...
...Thayer map is not an exact representation of the Harvard student body, but it does reflect the trends. According to admissions data published in the Harvard University Gazette, 44 percent of the class of 2011 is from the Northeast (New England and mid-Atlantic regions), 20 percent is from the West, 16 percent is from the South, and 11 percent is from the Midwest (the rest are international). These numbers hardly match up with the actual population distribution in the U.S. As reported by the Census Bureau in 2005, only 18 percent of the population lives in the Northeast...
...Ideally, the Thayer map will one day be more than two orange coasts with space in between. But for that to happen, Harvard needs to step up efforts to do away with prejudices that often dominate college application decisions...
...Serdar Tatar, a legal resident from Turkey who worked at a 7-Eleven store and knew the Dukas and Shnewer from high school, asked Omar outright if he was a "fed." Three days later, Tatar contacted a Philadelphia police sergeant to report that someone was pressuring him to acquire maps of Fort Dix - and that he was afraid it might be terrorism-related. (Tatar's father owned a pizzeria and had a map of the base and clearance to deliver there.) The sergeant called...