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Since the website was created on Saturday, it has attracted 1,674 unique viewers (a bit under one-fourth of the number of students in the Harvard undergraduate body), tallied over 14,000 total page views, and received 621 item submissions, according to Uchiyama...

Author: By Sophie T. Bearman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Buying a Futon Just Got a Little Easier | 5/12/2010 | See Source »

...Roughly one-fourth of admitted students claimed an interest in the humanities—a 2.7 percent increase—while those planning to study the social sciences dropped from 24.6 percent last year to 21.3 percent this year...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Acceptance Rate Falls to New Low | 3/31/2010 | See Source »

...does the U.S. fare in HPI terms? Not so good. It sits pretty far down the list at 114. The U.K. is 74, behind Germany, Italy and France. Topping the chart is Costa Rica, which has long life expectancy, high life satisfaction, and a per capita ecological footprint one-fourth the size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is GDP An Obsolete Measure of Progress? | 1/30/2010 | See Source »

...from Nagasaki prefecture is one of more than two dozen rookie female politicians who three months ago swept into the legislature on a groundswell of antiestablishment public sentiment. During watershed national elections on Aug. 30, voters not only handed control of the government to the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) after more than five decades of rule by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), they also elected a record number of women to high office. The Diet now includes 96 women among its 722 members in the upper and lower houses. More than one-fourth of them are serving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power to Japan's 'Princesses' | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...unveiling of the package—applicable to nearly one-fourth of the tenured faculty in FAS—comes less than a month after FAS Dean Michael D. Smith said in an interview that he plans to reduce the overall size of the FAS in upcoming years through attrition. Currently, 24 percent of Harvard’s tenured faculty is aged 65 or older—the average age of tenured faculty members within...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: FAS, Four Other University Schools Offer Retirement Plan for Faculty Members | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

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