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...Even the simplest concepts, like grade point average, are complicated in the admissions game; Cornblatt said admissions officers consider not just a the final number, but also the trend of grades, quality of curriculum and university name...
...Speaking of soccer, one reason you'll never hear of a full-blown players' strike in the "Simplest Game" is a fact which often escapes the attention of the average American sports fan: there is more than one "top" league. We talk about baseball players going to Japan for more money, or basketball players to Italy...but that's how it works all the time in soccer...
Microbes' extraordinary ability to adapt, observes Harvard microbiologist Fields, "is a fact of life. It's written into evolution." Indeed, the end run that many organisms are making around modern antibiotics is a textbook case of Darwin's theory in action (anti-evolutionists, take note). In its simplest form, the theory states that new traits will spontaneously appear in individual members of a given species -- in modern terms, mutations will arise in the organisms' genetic material. Usually the traits will be either useless or debilitating, but once in a while they'll confer a survival advantage, allowing the individual...
...Willie Mays. More than 100 players make over $3 million a season; the average salary is just over $1 million. During the past decade, baseball has grown from a sleepy $600 million business to an industry worth almost $2 billion. The strike, at its core, is over the simplest of economic issues: how to divide this growing pie. And while economics is as riveting as a two-hour rain delay, it is central to the stalled negotiations. The clash involves base self- interest and primal greed: the owners want to put a cap on how much players can earn...
Clothing could be purchased as well. Most of the shirts were so original and beautiful they made the Deadhead want to buy them all, from the simplest peace symbol to the intricate fusion of Sesame Street characters and the Shakedown Street album cover. And only 15 dollars, half of what you would pay for a garment commemortating your presence at one of the Eagles premium rehersal sessions that are passing for concerts this summer...