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...hydra-headedness of the ceaseless craving for digital stimulation that contemporary technology is creating in us. When it's not coming in through my eyes, digital information is taking over my ears via my beloved silver iPod Mini (one of Apple's orphaned design concepts). A survey conducted by Stanford University last fall found that more than 1 in 8 Americans suffers from some form of Internet addiction. It hardly needs to be said that this problem doesn't wreck lives with the ferocity of alcohol or narcotics, but we have yet to take data seriously as a controlled substance...
Meanwhile, Harvard Law School moved up one spot to tie with Stanford for second behind Yale Law School. Yale has earned the top billing among law schools since the inception of U.S. News’ report. In education programs, Harvard Graduate School of Education slipped to third behind Columbia University’s Teachers College and Stanford. This drop came as a “slight surprise,” according to U.S. News Director of Data Research Robert J. Morse, who attributed the drop partly to Harvard “not doing as well” in research...
Meanwhile, Harvard Law School moved up one spot to tie with Stanford for second behind Yale Law School. Yale has earned the top billing among law schools since the inception of U.S. News’ report. In education programs, Harvard Graduate School of Education slipped to third behind Columbia University’s Teachers College and Stanford. This drop came as a “slight surprise,” according to U.S. News Director of Data Research Robert J. Morse, who attributed the drop partly to Harvard “not doing as well” in research...
...continued expansion, Knowles presented a bar graph showing last year’s ratio of 14.6 students per “ladder” faculty—tenured and tenure-track professors—as compared to 9.9 students at Yale (in 2004-2005) and 10.7 students at Princeton. Stanford and UC Berkeley, on the other hand, were shown to compare unfavorably with Harvard’s ratio...
...hires in the social sciences and arts and humanities accounted for most of that growth, Knowles said, and FAS now lags behind Yale, Princeton, and Stanford in the proportion of faculty in the natural sciences...