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...made Monday, likely comes too close to Harvard’s Jan. 1 application deadline to affect the number of applicants to the Class of 2012, Fitzsimoons said. But given Harvard’s decision to eliminate early action, this year’s yield may be hard to predict...
...Political polls usually function as Ouija boards that campaigns and pundits can use to try to predict the outcome of an election. We're more interested in figuring out how voters make the decisions that lead to that outcome. Is it a gut reaction, an emotional response to a candidate who makes them feel proud or angry? Are voters more interested in character traits like leadership and sincerity or in policy positions that match their...
...some guy opened his window and yelled ‘Shut up! People are trying to sleep in here.’” Peter J. Huybers, an assistant professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and self-described fan of the snow, said it is difficult to predict what kind of weather is in store for this winter. To help out with the cold, the Harvard College Financial Aid Office and the Freshman Dean’s Office awards money to low-income freshmen for coats and other winter accessories through the “coat fund...
...However, says Zaramba: "We believe this Ebola outbreak is not as serious as the strain we had in 2000." Still, he says, "we cannot predict what will happen." Rwanda, Uganda's southern neighbor, announced Saturday it was tightening health border controls to prevent the disease from spreading south. A team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will arrive in Uganda this week for further investigation and to advise on further containment of the disease...
...course, it's impossible to predict where China stocks are headed. The Shanghai index quickly rebounded from a scary one-day plunge of nearly 9% on Feb. 27. But recently, the warnings that shares are overvalued have become difficult even for inexperienced investors, accustomed to quick scores and relentlessly rising share prices, to ignore. Last month, a top official at the China Securities Regulatory Commission, Tu Guangshao, said investors needed to "educate themselves" about market risks. "Some sort of correction was inevitable, and it's probably here," says economist Xie. Although many investors believed the government would do nothing...