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Right now, the United States donates less as a percentage of its Gross Domestic Product—only one tenth of one percent??than the other 21 most industrialized nations. Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden all meet or exceed the United Nations’ suggested amount of 0.7 percent. Surveys by the Maryland-based Program on International Policy Attitudes and The Washington Post have indicated that Americans advocate, on average, spending at least five or ten percent of the federal budget on aid. Ten percent would be $223 billion; five percent, $111 billion. Both of these numbers...
...predictive power wasn’t unique to last year either. In the last three years alone, only two of 50 automatic qualifiers in the bottom third of the bracket received a seed lower than what it would have predicted. That’s a success rate of 96 percent??over four points better than the best free-throw percentage in the Ivy League...
Applying E.A. boosts an applicant’s chances by 18.9 percent??the same amount that a 100-point jump on the SATs would—according to the book’s statistical analysis of more than 500,000 actual admissions decisions. The effects of applying E.D. are even more drastic, giving an applicant a 34.8 percent boost, which corresponds to a 190-point SAT advantage...
...Cold Turkey” campaign urged students to sign a pledge promising they would turn off their electronic appliances over the break to conserve resources and minimize greenhouse gas emission. CERP says computers use the most energy at Harvard—at 39 percent??followed by lights at 26 percent, citing the results of a student’s senior thesis...
...number of international early applicants rose by 46 percent??520 this year compared to 357 last year...