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...have been dealt this blow." The British Canoe Union, which supports the 1.5 million U.K. residents who canoe and kayak is similarly alarmed. In a statement, it wrote, "We are concerned about the irony of 2008 being Olympic year. Our athletes will need to transport their equipment to pre-Olympic events, training camps and to the Olympics themselves in Beijing, China. This will significantly limit our athletes' ability to prepare for important events. And it will have further significant implications as we head towards the London 2012 Olympics." Newly crowned European long board champion and English champion Ben Skinner...
...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 are full professors, which Garcia suggested makes...
...With an influx of students from for whom a major draw is post-college career success and earning potential, there will naturally be less emphasis on the “frivolous” pursuits of the liberal arts and more on activities and areas of study that are distinctly pre-professional. Though of course there are exceptions, this culture increasingly pervades campus. This is why there has been a surge of campus business groups, and so-called “leadership” organizations. This is evident, too, in the rise in number of concentrators in areas such as economics...
...They have a jumbotron at Wien Stadium! Granted, it's mini-sized, but they had a pre-game video and everything. By the way, isn't the pre-game coin toss always so cool for Harvard? Three Columbia guys walk out to mid-field holding hands, while Brad Bagdis runs out alone, looking all baller-like. More teams should adopt the one-captain mantra...
...children, and families went to great lengths to ensure that at least one was a son - including aborting girl babies, especially if they already had one daughter. Vietnamese online forums carry threads devoted to how to ensure conceiving a boy - everything from special diet to especially rigorous sex to pre-intercourse douching with an alkaline solution. "I've tried everything, and even cleaned with the special solution, but I am still pregnant with a girl," lamented one woman on an online forum. "Do you think my doctor sold me a fake product...