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...move in. "We're going to have a modern immigration law," Schröder said. It's about time. Germany, like most other European countries, is sitting on a demographic time bomb. Without an annual influx of at least 230,000 people, Germany's population of 83 million will shrink to 51 million in 2050 and 24 million in 2100, according to Reiner Klingholz, director of the Berlin Institute for World Population and Global Development. Such a steep drop could imperil funding for Germany's state pensions. And despite a stubbornly high unemployment rate of 10.5%, almost 75,000 jobs...
Harvard’s male draw stands out nationally. Overall enrollment in higher education for men has declined since 1992 and federal projections show the percentage of men in college will shrink to 42 percent by 2010, according to a 2000 article in Time Magazine...
...increased freshman seminars and freshman advising. The average Economics concentrator will also learn less about other fields from the dumbed-down Harvard College Courses. And while their knowledge of scientific concepts will suffer from overly-broad, ill-defined courses, science concentrators’ understanding of scientific concepts will also shrink, from the decision to cap the number of concentration requirements at 12. The report, in other words, seems to have the unusual side-effect of ensuring that every undergraduate will be less educated (though at least evenly...
...thing, sales another. And who would choose IBM and Dell as their competitors? But Fiorina led the company forward on many fronts, modernizing how HP did business, how it was organized and how it looked at the world. Now it's selling printers for $40, using nanotechnology to shrink devices and powering the core of the digital household. HP appears to have invention at its core again--and Carly Fiorina. --By MARJORIE SCARDINO, CEO of Pearson...
...This is our moment, and I hope we will not shrink from it,” said Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes at the time...