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...fact, it is unlikely that had an impact on the shift in rankings. According to "Best Colleges" supplement editor Mel Elfin, himself the recipient of a master's degree here, Harvard's drop can be attributed to a change in the criteria, rather than a decline in the quality of a Harvard education. For the first time, the percentage of classes with 50 or more students was included as part of the equation used to rank the schools. At 21 percent, Harvard more than doubles Yale's nine percent. It isn't until 31st-ranked UCLA, with 29 percent, that...
...country or another has dominated the medical sciences for prolonged periods. Since World War II, the U.S. has held the lead not only in molecular biology but in all scientific accomplishment. In the mid-1950s, the U.S. government rapidly expanded the National Institutes of Health to underwrite and supplement the research of American biomedical scientists, many of whom have made their most important contributions while working in the nih laboratories in Bethesda, Maryland. One result of this strategy: since 1960, more than 50% of the winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine have been Americans...
...states' responsibility to move people from welfare to work. "You asked for this, and now you got it," Clinton said. "There is not enough money around to create enough public jobs to solve this welfare problem." The President said that means states need to use federal block grants to supplement wages paid by private employers, making it easier for companies to hire welfare recipients. "We need to break this responsibility down to think about how we can make it a good deal for the business community ? so we don't wind up with a bunch of nightmares saying, 'We passed...
According to Mel Elfin, the weekly news magazine's special projects editor and executive editor of the annual "America's Best Colleges" supplement, Harvard fell in the rankings because, for the first time, enough schools reported how many of their classes have more than 50 students to make that statistic significant...
...ground floor of an office building, local coffee moguls had recently installed a Seattle's Best Coffee, a Starbucks-like franchise (Yes, the very same as our dear Science Center coffee cart and Loker Commons fare). One morning, as I sat in that coffee shop with the entertainment supplement to the Seattle Times and a cappuccino, feeling quite sophisticated searching for cultural enlightenment to the tune of an espresso drink, a crew of construction workers left their concrete solidifying in the forms for the opera house foundation, crossed the street, walked past me into the cafe and congregated under...