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...anxiety of the vacationers is forcing some tourism-dependent cities to take defensive measures. Several municipalities have prohibited swimming when the glob-to-human ratio gets too high. Such bans risk provoking the wrath of sweaty vacationers, but the alternative can be grim: on July 15 alone, rescue crews were called to the beaches of suburban Nice nearly 500 times to treat people for jellyfish stings...
...ratio, it turns out, is typical for storms. Men are more likely than women to die in floods, year after year, all over the country. A study of U.S. thunderstorm-related deaths from 1994 to 2000 found that men were more than twice as likely to die than women. Of the 1,442 fatalities, 70% were men, according to research by Thomas Songer at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health. Most of the deaths happened outside the home during flash floods or lightning strikes. That is partly because men are more likely to be outside...
...view was the University was insufficiently utilizing its endowment, that it needed to increase significantly the payout ratio so as to be an academic institution rather than a financial institution,” said former University president Lawrence H. Summers...
...Academic All-District Second Team in addition to the Ivy League Second Team. Madick wrote herself into the Harvard record books for most saves in a single season (5), most career saves (7), and opponent batting average (.220). Madick’s strikeout-per-seven-innings ratio of 6.82 is good enough for second best in Crimson history. Her 42 wins and 439 strikeouts are the third best in program history. —Staff writer Julia R. Senior can be reached at jrsenior@fas.harvard.edu...
...issue is that some of the department’s classes are too large. The ratio of majors to faculty exceeds 14 in economics but falls below five in many departments. Student demand is only one factor determining how faculty slots are allocated, however. As the late FAS Dean Jeremy R. Knowles put it, one can imagine a university without philosophy majors, but not without a philosophy department. Class sizes will inevitably be greater in the larger concentrations...