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...year later, the group increased the minimum class rank and standardized test scores—psst…otherwise known as the Academic Index—necessary to gain entrance into an Ivy League institution. This was a good decision, because, as we all know, grades and test scores can tell us everything about an individual...
...There isn’t much sharing of info with membership,” Carens said. “That’s not a strong effective strategy to win a good contract. You have to try to reach out to all the rank-and-file members, and the way to do that is to make them feel like they can influence the way negotiations happen...
...nine spots are occupied by schools in California, and six University of California schools rank in the Top 20. Ivy rival Brown finished with a No. 19 ranking...
Using some complex math, Page and Brin figured out how to index and rank websites in the order of how often they were linked to--and to return search results in that order. The two were so certain of their idea's merits that they quit school to start a company. Their business naivete was a plus, helping them avoid many common mistakes of the dotcom age. For instance, the site went live before Page and Brin had thought to hire a webmaster. So while search giants like Yahoo were filling their home pages with news headlines, stock quotes...
Lomborg now runs the Environmental Assessment Institute for the Danish government. His next big project will assemble a group of top economists to rank the world's priorities from a short list of 10: trade barriers, malnutrition, climate change, conflicts, financial instability, sanitation, human migration, communicable diseases, education and corruption. --By Matt Ridley, author of Nature via Nurture