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Moreover, Oppenheim suggests that because "there was a direct relationship between a school's percentage of black students and its social rating," Harvard should discount Black Enterprise's rankings altogether. Why, then, was Stanford, which has a 5 percent black population, ranked tenth in the same Black Enterprise survey? Evidently it's not because Stanford has more black students than Harvard, whose black population is 6 percent...
Finally, I'd love to have Diamond Multimedia's Rio, a portable music player ($199) that handles MP3s, a digital format that squeezes CDs down to one-tenth their normal size in megabytes. That makes them small enough to send on the Net. But thanks to a Recording Industry Association of America lawsuit that tried to ban the players--MP3 is the format of choice for audio pirates as well as many legitimate artists--everyone wants one. Diamond says it's sold out through Christmas. But, hey, there's always next year...
Meyer blamed the temporary dip in Harvard's investments in emerging markets, which accounted for nearly one-tenth of the entire endowment, and the investment of some of the University's other assets in a manner similar to hedge funds--private funds which perform risky trading in options and other derivatives...
UCLA geochemist Frank Kyte thinks he may have found not just the answer but also a piece of the thing itself: a tiny meteorite fragment, a tenth of an inch across, that was extracted from a 65-million-year-old geological layer under more than 50 yds. of sediment at the bottom of the Northern Pacific. In a report in the current issue of Nature, Kyte notes that the little chunk contains concentrations of metals (such as iridium and nickel) and mineral textures that clearly show that it is extraterrestrial and that it probably was once part of a much...
...site is a paleontological field of dreams. The eggs include dozens of embryos--the first to be unearthed anywhere in the southern hemisphere (and an exponential jump in the existing worldwide inventory of only five specimens). What's more, the beautifully preserved bits and pieces include tiny (about a tenth of an inch long), pencil-shaped teeth and mosaics of precise, miniature, lizard-like scales. Says American Museum paleontologist Luis Chiappe, another of the team's co-leaders: "Finding dinosaur embryos is rare enough. Finding the [soft, perishable] tissue that surrounded those bones is truly spectacular...