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...move back first-semester exams, and reading period will have to shrink. We will have to start doing work every week to be prepared for exams. And we will lose the true benefit of Harvard...
...million miles from the sun, the loss was about 12 tons a second. A month later, as it approached perihelion, the loss increased to 40 tons a second, and has since varied between 30 and 70 tons. Stewart estimates that the loss of surface ice causes Halley's to shrink 20 ft. to 30 ft. in diameter each time it passes the sun. At that rate, he says, the comet's nucleus, now about four miles in diameter, will swing close to the sun hundreds of times before Halley's disappears forever...
Experts agree that a falling currency, like a rising one, offers both opportunities and perils. By making American companies more competitive with foreign rivals, it should help shrink the U.S. trade deficit, which hit a record $148.5 billion last year. Narrowing that gap would create jobs and boost the gross national product. Government figures released last week showed that the GNP grew at an annual rate of only 1.2% in the fourth quarter of 1985 and 2.3% during the year as a whole, the smallest increase since 1982. The weakening dollar will also reduce demands that Congress take protectionist action...
Parties like that could only happen in a department with a faculty-to-concentrator ratio of more than one-to-one. Some Harvard students in larger departments might shrink at the prospect of faculty members knowing them so well and keeping track of them...
...Worldwatch's expenses. State of the World will be printed in nine languages, total 150,000 copies by year's end and find its way into 122 nations. The Chinese produce three different versions (John Naisbitt's Megatrends rates only two versions). Interestingly, China has mounted a campaign to shrink the percentage of its budget spent on defense and spur economic development...