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...politics of academia will outstrip the politics of Congress, but if a college or university is not the place for that kind of inculcation and that kind of emphasis, then there is no other place for that," Simpson said...
Many developing countries are now facing exploding rates of infection that far outstrip those seen in the U.S., both in magnitude and rate of growth. More than 90 percent of all new HIV cases are in developing countries. It was in Manipur, India, in the early 1990s that the fastest growth rate of HIV infection in the world was recorded. Within less than 18 months, rates of infection among the city's intravenous drug users skyrocketed from less than 2 percent to more than 90 percent. India now has more than 5 million cases of HIV, more than any other...
...investment. But the market is finally springing to life again, and fast. Remember those heady housing markets of the 1970s and mid-'80s? Forget 'em. Not returning anytime soon. But for the first time in a decade, home prices in most of the U.S. are rising fast enough to outstrip the inflation rate of about 2.5%. And there are many hot spots. The Midwest is seeing some of the biggest leaps, while house hunters in such cities as San Francisco, Seattle, New York and Boston increasingly find they must pay more than the asking price to win a bidding...
Knowles also notes that rises in tuition rates cannot continue to outstrip inflation indefinitely. We are grateful that the tuition increase last year was the lowest in decades, but even a five percent increase can be a burden for struggling families. We beg the Faculty to do anything in its power to reduce skyrocketing tuition rates while keeping the budget in balance...
...must recognize the problem of tuition growth rates that continue to outstrip inflation," he wrote. "We must accept that the cost of recruiting the best faculty will remain high, in an increasingly competitive world of institutional 'star wars...