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Steven C. Marsh, managing director of real estate for the MIT Investment Management Company, told the commission that MIT’s undergraduate enrollment had decreased by 566 per year since 1993. The university plans to enroll an additional 100 students per year starting in 2008, he said, and will still offer on-campus housing to all its freshmen...
...money is not what schools need from the federal government. Over the past 40 years, we as a nation have increased per pupil spending by two and one half times—in real dollar terms. Yet student performance has hardly budged over that period of time. Even our best students—the top tenth—do not perform any better today than their parents and grandparents did forty-odd years ago. Meanwhile, high school graduation rates are lower today than they were...
...selling diamond for drills, precision cutting tools and even tweeter domes in stereo systems, but in 2002 it rebranded that branch of its operations Element Six--a sign of its commitment to this fledgling side of the business. "The market for industrial diamond is growing at 10% to 15% per annum," says Element Six spokesman John Caldwell. "We are trying to push the boundaries of uses for diamond...
...which he referred to Japanese women of childbearing age as "baby-making machines." He went onto explain that arresting population decline was difficult "because the number of baby-making machines and devices is fixed [in the population]; all we can do is ask them to do their best per head." The 71-year-old Yanagisawa did add, however, "that it may not be so appropriate to call them machines...
...around largely to show off. Right now their ranks are small enough that others do not feel compelled to follow suit, but as the number of PDAs on campus grows, that could change. In a worst-case scenario, PDAs, which can increase cell phone bills by up to $50 per month, will become ubiquitous symbols of privilege on campus. In other words, the PDA is on the cusp of becoming must-have, ivory tower “bling,” a nauseating prospect...