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...North and South Korean, Japanese, or Taiwanese ancestry, make up a majority of the Asians at Harvard. Often, Southeast Asians—the region variably composed of India, Vietnam, Thailand, and several other countries—are lumped in with East Asians on ethnic surveys. In the smaller-scale world of college admissions, the Common Application, used by over 300 colleges, splits applicants of Asian heritage not into categories of East Asian and Southeast Asian descent but into “Asians” and “Asian-Americans”. Southeast Asian-Americans with heritage from countries like...
It was a little over a year ago—two days after freshman move-in day—when sophomores Emily Tay and Katie Rollins met each other for the first time. But after a few minutes alone with them, you would guess they have known each other for...
...change in philosophy comes not a moment too soon. Preterm births account for more than a third of all infant deaths in the U.S. and cost Americans $26.2 billion a year. And although many of the half a million preemies born in the U.S. each year go on to live long, healthy lives, for too many the problems of their entry into the world are compounded by long-term complications ranging from mental retardation and cerebral palsy to hyperactivity and respiratory disorders. "We all bear the costs," says Dr. RuthAnn Shepherd, director of the Kentucky department of health's division...
...largest pepper exporter and second-largest exporter of coffee, cashews and rice. And multinational companies are increasingly selecting the country as a manufacturing base. Canon Inc. has two giant printer factories in Vietnam and is building a third in Bac Ninh province, 20 miles northeast of Hanoi. The new plant will be the largest inkjet printer factory in the world. Nike recently increased its annual production in Vietnam from 54 million pairs of shoes to 70 million, making the country the world's second-largest source of Nike sneakers (China is the largest...
Edwards and Gates are at the cutting edge of an effort to overcome that dilemma by providing universities with a third option: strings-attached grants from nonprofit organizations focused on developing-world diseases...