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...house identity, and aggressive dorm and drinking rules have placed the responsibility of Harvard’s social life in the hands of student-run extracurricular organizations and clubs. The result of all this is a derisive and dividing Culture of Exclusion through which students seclude themselves in autonomous micro-nations who are all at-odds with each other...
...longest time, we’ve been looking at aggregate price data, but we wanted to look at micro-data that are used to put together the aggregate price data,” said Gopinath, who plans to return to her previous research on the functioning of debt overhang economies and apply her findings to Greece’s current debt-heavy financial situation...
From macro to micro: at the bottom of the top 10 is Letters from God, a Christian-themed inspirational drama about a kid with cancer and his Almighty pen pal. The movie earned $1,250,000 on 897 screens, way below last year's Christian semi-hit Fireproof. But Letters cost only $3 million to make, so it could turn a profit, if the faithful keep contributing to the multiplex collection plate...
...hard as other cities by the recession; the unemployment rate was nearly 3 points below the national average at the end of last year. Still, the metro area has seen big job losses from major employers, including the computer maker Dell and semiconductor manufacturers like Freescale and Advanced Micro Devices. It's not hard to find the desperate stories here that you find throughout the rest of the country: the woman laid off from book publishing two years ago who hasn't been able to find a permanent job since; the interior decorator who used to have a six-figure...
...application of certain materials to the micro-particles causes a shift from attractive to repulsive inter-molecular forces, thus permitting the particles to levitate in a fluid, Sridhar explained...