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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jones said the climb at MIT and at other schools is also due to a larger number of young people applying to college. Numbers are rising because early action and early decision programs are looking more attractive to high school students, according to Jones.

Author: By Graeme C. A. wood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Early Action Changes Cause Flux in Admits | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

Glengarry is a world of incessant motion. The characters are constantly rising up and down like the figures they so jealously keep track of on a chalkboard - struggling to gain power, reveling in their moment of glory, only to come crashing down a moment later. It is a world where...

Author: By By JULIE L. rattey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Glengarry: Not A World of Men--Ruiz assembles power cast in Kronauer space | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

The early admits represented a more ethnically diverse group, with African-American students comprising 7.7 percent, up from 5.9 percent last year, and Latino students rising from 6.3 to 7.1 percent. Asian-American and Native American admits both dropped slightly.

Author: By Michael L. Shenkman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Admits Slightly Fewer Early Action Applicants | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

Carbon dioxide and other gases from the burning of fossil fuels collect in the atmosphere and act like the glass walls of a greenhouse, trapping heat on the earth's surface. Scientists predict that the planet's average temperature could rise as much as 6.3[degrees]F (3.5[degrees]C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greenhouse Effects | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

But the show works better as an intellectual exercise than a moving theatrical experience. Director Graciela Daniele's rather dry production dwells in ponderous shadows for much of the first act and shifts abruptly (and half-heartedly) to Gay Nineties Chicago in the second. The transformation of Marie's lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Medea in New Orleans | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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