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...Commerce Department agency, handles about 1,000 such requests annually. But Commerce officials told the auditors that only two universities have submitted license applications in recent years. They did not name the schools. The auditors want to know why universities aren’t applying for licensing in greater numbers??especially considering that so many schools are engaged in defense-related research and thus theoretically are producing findings that should be subject to export controls. The report also noted that over 55 percent of engineering doctoral candidates in the U.S. are foreign-born. And while...
...cynical co-opting of the Latino vote by Chicago Democrats; interracial tensions within the machine are never far from the surface. Two of the clearest examples of this are the relationships between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans—the latter are a greater political force, despite their inferior numbers??and West Side and South Side black politicians—the former are jealous of the latter’s influence. These intra-racial, inter-neighborhood power struggles stand in contrast to the inter-racial, intra-neighborhood clashes detailed in “There Goes the Neighborhood...
...played twenty-five minutes, tied for the team lead with six rebounds, and led the team with four steals, while junior forward Brad Unger contributed ten points off the bench, including a key lay up in the final minute of the game. Both had very good plus-minus numbers??that is, the difference in how many points the team scores compared to how much the opponent scores when the player is on the court. “Brad had a terrific game off the bench,” Crimson coach Frank Sullivan said. “When...
...students to be citizens of a democracy within a global society” without giving them a basic understanding of markets. The lack of emphasis in the report on the hard sciences and mathematics—a student could conceivably graduate barely having glanced at any numbers??also raises grave concerns, as these subjects are becoming increasingly applicable. While general education should not be pre-professional, allowing students to graduate from college in the contemporary world without receiving any rigorous, post-secondary training in these disciplines is irresponsible...
...things—“a Philosophy requirement” comes second to mind, after “a bitch”—but “logical” isn’t even on the list. QR 28, “The Magic of Numbers?? boasts an “emphasis… placed on discovery through conjecture and experimentation.” Attracting the most shoppers of any QR, this class capitalizes on its nostalgic appeal—the nostalgia of patterns and prime numbers, factorials and probability. (“What?...