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...indicate one's inherent ability, a number cannot truly define a person's intelligence. Innate ability undoubtedly plays a role in success, but hard work is just as important. For colleges to see what a student has to offer, they must look beyond test scores and into the realm of the unquantifiable. RYAN PENNING Rocky River, Ohio...
...realm that promised enormous riches, and the entrepreneur was king. Employees of established companies jumped ship to join the Internet gold rush, their fledgling firms funded by venture capitalists desperate to get a piece of the next big thing. And as those companies listed on the stock markets, financial institutions got in on the act, driving valuations and share prices through the roof. On March 10, 2000, Germany's Neuer Markt, France's Nouveau Marché, Italy's Nuovo Mercato and the granddaddy of the high-tech bourses, America's nasdaq, all reached new peaks. Then the tide turned, taking...
...aroused well before they enter the cabin - from delays, boredom, jetlag or saying farewell to loved ones. Also, by some estimates, as many as one in five passengers has a fear of flying. And a few experts say that airlines, whose advertisements depict air travel as a relaxed, soothing realm of smiling passengers and subservient flight attendants, may themselves be partially to blame for raising travelers' expectations. It's a claim airlines flatly dismiss. "Ludicrous," says Ben Hall, a spokesman for Virgin Atlantic Airways. "We have to look at how many cases of air rage are linked to people over...
...happen to belong to that group of people who think that Harvard presidents should speak out on all kinds of things outside the realm of education," he said, "[but] in Secretary Summers' case, one might want to relax that a little bit, because there are some issues about the global economy that he has expertise...
...realm of undergraduate education, there is a strong feeling that Summers--who became the University's youngest-ever tenured professor in 1983--will be a champion of students' academic interests...