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...million Edge: See previous. Number of Museums Harvard: 13 Yale: 5 Edge: Harvard; old, expensive objects. Age of Institution Harvard: 369 years Yale: 304 years Edge: Harvard. As illustrated above, we value old things. We also have Sam Huntington. Acceptance Rate Harvard: 9.1% Yale: 9.7% Edge: Harvard. Egos thrive on exclusivity. Admissions Yield Harvard: 78% Yale: 68% Edge: Harvard; applicants on Yale’s wait-list. City Air Pollution Index (lower is better) Cambridge: 75 New Haven: 96 Edge: Harvard; our lungs. City Property Crime Risk (lower is better) Cambridge: 102 New Haven: 255 Edge: Harvard; people stealing...
While the economy has continued to thrive on his watch, Guinn has tried to leave Nevada with a broader and more solid foundation for the long-term future. Most notably, he established a Millennium Scholarship program to help high school graduates pay for college, and privatized the state's underfunded workers' compensation program--a move that took the $2 billion shortfall off Nevada's books and helped lower the insurance rates companies pay into the system. Along the way, Guinn helped fight the Federal Government's plan for a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain; moved to diversify Nevada...
...year, your odds of getting a bachelor's degree by age 24 are 1 in 2. If you come from a family earning under $36,000, it's 1 in 17. People at the top of the income scale pass down the skills one needs to thrive in this economy to their kids who get into Harvard--where the median student comes from a family making $150,000 a year--and they go on to an affluent suburb. And they pass it down, so you get really good public high schools, and people there are more likely to marry people...
...appeal to quality but an appeal to identity and authenticity." Yes, the books at Cody's are probably all available on Amazon, and yes, many of them are also sold, at a discount, by the big chain store around the corner. But just as a small wine bar can thrive by pouring drinks available more cheaply at a liquor store or sports bar, so can a bookstore trade on its cachet of cool. "My guess is that the market does value the combination of being there, touching, feeling, browsing the books, along with the feeling of being in a cool...
...successful as Gregg and Drew Shipp by accident. Shake hands with the 36-year-old fraternal twins who co-own the sprawling Hi Fi Personal Fitness club in Chicago, and it's clear you're in the presence of people who thrive on their drive. But that wasn't always the case. The twins' father founded the Jovan perfume company, a glamorous business that spun off the kinds of glamorous profits that made it possible for the Shipps to amble through high school, coast into college and never much worry about getting the rent paid or keeping the fridge filled...