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...held steady at about 2,500 each year. But over the course of the next three years, the admissions committee has seen a 68 percent surge in applicants who list their primary interest as engineering sciences, during a period in which the total number of applicants to Harvard has risen by about only 11 percent...
Although many names have rallied from their trough in March 2009, they're still far short of their highs. Las Vegas Sands (LVS) was trading at more than $138 a share in October 2007 and plunged to under $2 a share in March 2009. Although it has since risen 10-fold to $20 a share, it's still far below its peak. Wynn Resorts (WYNN) and Las Vegas Sands have seen the biggest gains, with their stocks rising 296% and 842% respectively in the past 52 weeks. But their gains were driven largely by their exposure to the lucrative Macau...
...linear, since there's a limit to how much wealth can please you; the happiness benefit of an increasing income is especially powerful among people who don't have much money to start with, and diminishes as wealth increases. But studies also reveal that as average income levels have risen over time - in the U.S. and European nations, for example - residents of those countries have not reported being any happier than people were 30 or 40 years ago. It's a paradox that while income and happiness may be associated within a population at any given moment, overall economic growth...
...forum came to a close, Dr. Herzog, director and founder of the Harris Center, applauded the speakers. “The industry needs your inspiration and you’ve risen to the occasion,” he said...
...Zaeef took a different route. The ex-commander with a scholarly side who had risen in the Taliban government to become a deputy minister of mines, and the ambassador to Pakistan shortly before 9/11, now writes books on the Afghanistan conflict. Published in five languages, Zaeef's latest book, My Life with the Taliban, has received noteworthy mention in the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker. And his message to the U.S. and his erstwhile Taliban comrades is that the conflict in Afghanistan will have to be settled through negotiation. "I believe that is the only solution...