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Harvard led the nation’s universities in fundraising last year with $540.3 million in contributions, according to a RAND Corporation survey released last week...
...China." Well, fine?although in the view of some analysts, it isn't really weapons that the Chinese want. But it isn't bratwurst, either. "The Chinese are not as likely to purchase off-the-shelf weapons systems as they are military-related technologies," says Evan Medeiros of the Rand Corporation in Washington. "Possible examples include submarine engines, fire control systems for air defense missile batteries, or over-the-horizon targeting." The Chinese want such technology because the People's Liberation Army has been on a modernization drive. It has cut forces by hundreds of thousands of personnel and revised...
...Jack Johnson whom Burns and Ward reveal was less a civil rights crusader than an Ayn Rand protagonist: a stubborn individualist who refused to be bound by society's rules or by any group's claim on him. He didn't merely want to transcend second-class status; he seemed to believe his talent placed him in a class above all. Blackness captures how tragically he was proved wrong--and how exhilaratingly, for moments in the ring, he proved himself right. --By James Poniewozik
...flat map. The once widely accepted version by the Flemish Gerardus Mercator, for example, distorted Greenland to appear four times its actual size. In 1963, by focusing on aesthetics--and only later incorporating a mathematical formula--he devised a projection that became the basis for world maps by Rand McNally and many federal agencies...
...quick fix. "We need to get back to two children per family," he says. "But even if we were able to do that, our population would continue to decline for decades because we've got an old population, and that means a higher death rate." Last year's RAND study found that countries that invest in policies to make it easier to have and raise children tend to have higher fertility rates than those that don't. The parade example is France, which after Ireland has the highest rate in Europe, 1.89. "France has always had a strong family policy...