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...Jesuit's great Apostle to the East, who converted hundreds in Japan, died off the coast of China and has his body enshrined in the Indian city of Goa. Jesuits converted the last survivors of the Ming dynasty to Catholicism as they fled the Manchu invaders in the mid-17th century. But Nicolas also brings in another important strand of history: he hails from the northern city of Palencia, not too far from hometown of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the 16th century Basque soldier who founded the Society of Jesus. The Jesuits eventually became the shock troops of the Church...
...self-diagnosis. In fact, online searches for "depression" are among the most popular searches sending traffic to the 5,900 sites that we track in the Hitwise Health and Medical category - but the peak is not in January. According to our Internet behavior, our depression spikes reliably in mid-November every year, right in time for Thanksgiving, the launch of the holiday season...
Women composed just over half of the applicant pool this year, and a larger-than-average increase in applicants was reported from the Mid-Atlantic and the South. The admissions office said it did not yet have complete statistics on the number of minority applicants this year, “but the numbers of African American and Latino applicants already exceed last year’s totals by a considerable margin...
This year marks the first without Early Action, the non-binding early admissions program that allowed students to apply by Nov. 1 and receive a decision by mid-December. Harvard announced the program’s end in fall 2006, arguing that early admissions practices tend to advantage students from wealthier families...
Fitzsimmons said the schools focused on rural and urban areas in four trips during the month of November. Those trips included one targeting the South and one to the Mid-Atlantic. The events drew large crowds of students, including a total of 1,300 during one trip to Washington...