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...talked to him for like, one minute. I thought that it might be my boyfriend," Wood said. "He whispered 'I can't sleep. Can we just talk for a while?' Then I realized that it wasn't my boyfriend, so I asked who it was. He whispered, 'It's me. Who else would call you this early?' Then I just hung...
...happens more often than you might think,” he said, adding that recounts generally do not change the outcome of the race...
...identify their LGBT status. Research shows that only 0.5 percent of teenage males identify as being homosexual, but averages among adults are higher. Those teenagers, who will eventually join the LGBT community, will remain unidentified during the admissions process. Other LGBT applicants might feel pressured to reveal their sexual identity to their family, friends, and teachers before they are ready. Coming out in college is very common, especially in accepting atmospheres such as Harvard; individuals who wait until college, despite being valid members of the LGBT community, would go undetected...
...Should admissions offices make the class percentages match the national averages? Studies estimating the percentage of homosexual males in the US population range from 2 percent to 10 percent. However, it is possible that the percentage of homosexual students at a university, such as Harvard, might be higher. Recent research suggests that homosexual male college students are, on average, more academically inclined and have higher grade point averages than their heterosexual counterparts...
While Beijing discouraged any efforts to investigate why so many schools collapsed in Sichuan two years ago, it did throw the might of the state into an aggressive rescue and rebuilding campaign in that province. The central government is following a similar path in Qinghai, sending a huge amount of resources to the remote mountain area. "The government does a finer job than many when it comes to crises," says Russell Leigh Moses, a Beijing-based political scholar. "The sort of centralizing impulses that have been the hallmark of the current leadership enables them to respond in a large...