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...said before that German psychologists found that kids were losing their senses by 1 percent per year. If you had to lose all but one of your five senses, which would you keep...
...empire that is Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy. The French holding company encompasses such icons as Donna Karan, Fendi, and Givenchy, in addition to Louis Vuitton itself. Brands and other intangibles, as might be suspected, play a staggering role in their financial holdings, accounting for 8.2 billion euros, or 29 percent of total assets. And these billions of dollars of ad campaigning—those mile-long legs of Fendi’s Raquel Zimmermann from the summer billboards —are working. Last year, Louis Vuitton recorded 11 percent revenue growth in its fashion and leathers business segment. Market...
...Yesterday’s election marked a 33 percent reduction in voter turnout over the past four years, with participation dipping below 15,000 for the first time in memory...
...this country’s greatest university end up in this country’s greatest metropolis?And yet, I think I’ll pass. You see, I’m not like most Harvard students—I’m one of the roughly 10 percent of undergraduates with a foreign passport. For us internationals, post-graduation planning is a delicate subject—should I stay or should I go?For all its talk of internationalism and global education, Harvard remains an expensive re-education camp, proselytizing the American dream. After three years here, if someone...
...sciences can be felt in the lecture halls of the Science Center. A J Garcia ’09, president of the Harvard College Latinos in Health Careers (HCLHC), said that between a quarter and a half of all Latino freshman have an interest in science, but only 5 percent of them choose the pre-medical track. “We are trying to give people the tools to stick with it and pursue careers in medicine,” Garcia said. The OU study also found that there were proportionally more minorities in associate professor positions than there...