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...report by the NCAA, Division I-AA colleges, including Harvard, expanded annual athletics spending by ninety-one percent, from $3.94 million per school in 1993 to $7.53 million in 2003. The increase is dramatic even accounting for the rise of women’s sports during that period. A similar trend has occurred in academics. In 1993, the college accepted 15 percent of its applicants. Impressive by today’s standards, that rate is still more than twice the seven percent that was admitted into the class...
...interview with The Crimson shortly after quitting, Balcetis said something similar: “...when the level of basketball increases, the workload increases, so it’s kind of hard to sometimes go 100%, and college basketball is all 100% or nothing...
Richmond shared similar hopes for Steinbrueck’s return to Seattle...
...behavior really reflects the way we see and feel about the world,” says Hauser. “Dogs are very sensitive to human cues, such as following a finger to a target object.” While monkeys and chimpanzees have been used in similar studies, Hauser believes that dogs have a higher ability to follow such human cues. “Chimpanzees are much closer in many ways, in terms of genetics, but cannot follow this cue that we have been following since infancy.” While this mental sophistication might come as a surprise...
...Tunisian - who are being held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan have a legal right to challenge their imprisonment. If successful, the argument by Obama's Justice Department attorneys could create a loophole that would allow Obama to transfer prisoners to war zones for indefinite detention, a situation similar to the legal limbo that Bush established for Guantánamo...