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Last year's drain of prospective graduate students in Economics from Harvard to MIT appears to be diminishing, or may even have reversed itself, according to the number of this year's National Science Foundation (NSF) fellows who have listed Harvard as their first preference...
...NSF fellowships awarded this year, 12 fellows have indicated that the Economics program of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was their first choice...
...Griliches, professor of Economics and director of admissions for the Economics Department, said yesterday that only 10 NSF fellows preferred MIT over Harvard for next year...
...owns it? In the first half of the century, seven nations claimed pie-like slices of Antarctica. Now, since the signing of the treaty, Antarctica is in effect international ground-like the moon-where military activity or nuclear testing are prohibited. But as Geologist Robert H. Rutford, head of NSF's office of polar programs, explains: "While the treaty has so far held up, it is at best a fragile document. The major test is sure to come on the resources issue...
...project is being funded by the Research Applied to National Needs program (RANN) of the NSF. The program is an "attempt to generate research used and applied by people," in this case in the area of city and regional planning, Brown said...