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...acceptance rate for the class of 2013 was about 7 percent. That’s a number to make even some of us upperclassmen feel insecure. (Back in our day, we were admitted at the embarrassingly bloated rate of about 9 percent. Good thing we managed to slip in when we could.) These days, we wonder, could there be a statistically more impossible dream than getting into Harvard...
...merciless to the awkward prospects. New character Becky Jackson – a Cheerio-idolizing girl with Down Syndrome and zero coordination – wins out, arousing Will’s suspicions, to which Sue responds, “You don’t know the first thing about me.” Turns out Sue has a heart – and an adoring older sister Jean, who also has Down Syndrome. In the end, the coach decides to one-up Will’s diversity efforts from off-screen by buying the school a suite of handicapable...
...Whatever the tactics, everybody can agree on one thing: time is running out. Modeling by the Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit published in the Malaria Journal in February predicts that if nothing is done in the next two decades, "resistance to artemisinins will be approaching 100%." And if that happens, it won't be long until the resistant strain spreads from Cambodia's precious gem mines to Africa, putting half the world's population at risk of catching what would be an untreatable, deadly disease...
...think that creativity that someone has is already inside the person,” Wymer says. “So the only thing that drugs do is release...
...became yet another distraction. Just hours into his first trip to Asia as President and his 17th visit to a foreign country, one thing has become clear: Obama is having a tough time keeping the international focus on Asia with so much else going on in the world and at home...