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...other words, the group of academically admittable students is disproportionately rich. Assuming that Harvard’s admissions office operates on the need-blind meritocratic system it claims to, a free Harvard would still have a high composition of the white, rich kids from whom advocates of a tuitionless college are so hopeful to separate Harvard’s reputation...
...biomedical engineering at the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, says, “I am convinced that the work Brian is doing is very important both for the creative expression that Brian’s work represents itself, and more generally as an expression of the very rich dialog that is happening today at the art-science interface.”Bill Brieher, a researcher at the Mitchison Lab at HMS, concurs with Edwards. “I think that it’s really excellent that he’s getting coverage and that Harvard did this...
...could get away with it, which is exactly what the song is about. “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song” is a paean to the misuse of power, featuring lines such as “If you could make everybody poor just so you could be rich, would you do it? Yeah yeah yeah yeah.” After all, if you could make a bunch of cops ravenously chase a pastry-bedecked socialite, would you do it? (Yeah yeah yeah). Presiding over the madness is singer Wayne Coyne, sporting an appropriately megalomaniacal fur coat...
...boom makes it worse. A third of all U.S. tuberculosis cases are concentrated in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. In the El Paso hospitals, 50% of the patients are on some kind of public assistance, mainly Medicaid. Just about the only patients paying full freight, up front, are rich Mexicans who cross over to see a specialist. "Border towns have a double burden of disease," says Russell Bennett, chief of the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission, "those of emerging nations, like diarrhea, as well as [First World] diseases like stress and diabetes...
...Geeks in the Kitchen Whipping up a chocolate souffl?, right, is tricky, especially if you have no idea what soft peaks are. Enter the photo-rich blog Cooking for Engineers (cookingforengineers.com). Before mulling your own cider, making lasagna or baking pecan pie, check the site to see how a dish should look at each stage. Learn culinary mechanics as you go. Created as an engineer's personal recipe repository, the site now has a cult following. A highlight: clever diagrams that summarize the steps in a recipe in compact, printable charts...