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...peaking with the Class of 2012, which saw 484 applicants from China. This past year, 417 Chinese students bid for spots in the Class of 2013. “Certainly after 10 years of such increases, one expects a levelling off,” Fitzimmons said of the 14 percent decrease. “And as attractive as American universities might be, China certainly is working a great deal to make its institutions more competitive.” John P. Gobok ’12, who grew up in the Philippines, said that the economic recession has made it less...
...According to Berkeley Law School Professor Amy Kapczynzki, enabling generic production would have minimal financial impact on universities and pharmaceutical companies. For example, in 2002, Africa comprised only 1.3 percent of the world pharmaceutical market, and Southeast Asia, China, and the Indian subcontinent comprised 6.7 percent. These markets are so small that the profits rendered from them are insignificant, indicating that, at essentially no cost to the university, Harvard can make a groundbreaking step toward reducing the cost of essential medicines in poor countries and set an example for other universities to follow...
...Consider the evidence: Two people living apart require 56 percent more money to sustain themselves than two living together, according to national guidelines on poverty. Children also benefit. Sociologists Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur found that one third of children with divorced parents who participated in their study dropped out of high school, while one tenth of children from intact families did so. One third of their sample’s girls whose parents divorced became teenage mothers—triple the amount of girls from intact families...
...Fine, liberals concede, but there’s no going back to 1960. No one wants to. But the two-parent household has rebounded recently—among the college-educated. Since the 1980s, divorce among them has fallen by 30 percent. Meanwhile, it has risen among the less educated by about six percent. Gary Burtless, an economist at the Brookings Institute, calls this difference a main driver of economic inequality. Why the two-parent household has become more popular among the college-educated and less so among other demographics is an important question—not a distraction...
...fact, some of the best adherents to the traditional lifestyle come from the Ivy League. Just 10 percent of couples whose children attend these schools get divorced. Harvard graduates “are much less likely to get divorced and less likely to have kids out of wedlock than the poor and working-class,” added Douthat. For proof that social conservatism—at least of a kind—is still relevant, look no further than your classmates. Those prudes...