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...which last week announced it will debut a U.K. digital-download singles chart this fall, the world's first such national chart. Weighting the various download formats is a huge challenge, and security to thwart chart riggers will be tight, but the unspoken sticking point remains price. A high-tech black market is flourishing - global sales of blank CDs soared 40% last year. Meanwhile an old market founders: Madonna's single, a steal at just $1.49 a download, made Billboard's Top 10 with a paltry 4,000 sales in one week. "We know the demand is out there," Gillespie...
Some colleges and universities, in anticipation of one of these negative scenarios, have already jumped the gun by revisiting or dismantling their race-conscious admissions and financial aid programs. Virginia Tech, for instance, has waffled, abandoning its race-conscious admissions policy a few weeks ago, only to reinstate it recently after more careful consideration. Prodded on by anti-affirmative action groups, schools such as MIT and Princeton have decided to abandon or revise their minority-targeted scholarship and pre-college preparation programs, even though the burdens on non-minority students in these programs are minimal compared to a denial...
...Shop in the subterranean complex under Lyman. Most students don’t know about this unique resource, but those who frequent it couldn’t be more at home. For a newcomer, the shop can be a bit daunting—the space is filled with high tech lathes, drills, bandsaws and mills, some of which are equipped with computerized attachments. There is also a coil-winding machine that can wind copper wire into thigh-wide coils. The machines aren’t just cool. “They’re really cool...
...opposing teams in terms of funding, facilities, and publicity, Walsh truly believes that the backing of the athletic department to put competitive teams on the schedule makes all the difference in the world. For example, next season the Crimson will kick off the year with four games against Texas Tech...
Hendricks, of course, was accepted, but not before being courted by a plethora of other schools. He was recruited by Baylor, Georgia Tech, Miami of Ohio, Fresno State, Tulane and Wichita State, among others. But besides Harvard, two schools truly tempted Hendricks—Rice and West Point...