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...backed marketing and education initiatives. Clear guidelines on qualities, especially color, were established to eliminate price confusion. Nearly all tanzanite is heated to 450°C to develop its blue color, and the finest quality tanzanite is predominantly blue with violet accents. Quality tanzanite costs between $500 and $1,200 per carat at retail. Greig, the South African jeweler, says $1,000 per carat is a good benchmark. Buyers should demand certification from an independent laboratory. Top-grade flawless sells for $1,500 and up per carat and represents only 0.13% of TanzaniteOne's annual production, executives say. "Tanzanite...
...increases mirror the equally dramatic rise in homeschool applicants to Harvard.Grace S. Cheng, a Harvard Admissions Officer who oversees homeschool applications, estimates that her office now receives between 75 and 150 homeschooled applicants each year—a increase from the 1989 estimates of 5 to 10 homeschooled applicants per year.Cheng says homeschoolers are neither at an advantage nor disadvantage when applying. “Yes, homeschoolers are usually ranked one out of one,” she says with a laugh. “But we have so many valedictorians in the pool that it?...
...very risky thing to be just [a] Music undergrad,” says Brettman. “They want to not throw all their eggs in one basket.”After conducting a survey during finals, the Economics department expects an overall increase of 100-150 students per class year. According to Visiting Professor of Economics Jeffrey A. Miron, at least 50 seniors have contacted the department to inquire about obtaining a secondary field in Economics before they graduate.The director of the Office of Career Services, William Wright-Swadel, points out that a secondary field is a valid...
There’s no such thing as a free lunch (or dinner)—even at Harvard. According to a recently published report by the Committee on House Life (CHL), there is no way to extend dining hall hours without increasing the $4,618 per semester board fee paid by each student. This led the Committee to conclude that, “Given cost constraints, the request to lengthen dining hours in each House is not feasible.” We disagree. We’re willing to pay a bit more for better service, and we?...
While I enjoy my super-sized fries and wireless internet as much as the next American, I also recognize that the United States is far from being the exemplary society to which all others should aspire. We have the largest per capita prison population of any nation in the world. Many Americans still struggle to make ends meet, and the Americans who do “make it” often find that their material success doesn’t translate into happiness or even contentedness. Most Americans are overweight, which is symbolic of the fact that although we make...