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...number of international students applying to Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has increased this year, bucking a national trend of decreasing numbers of foreign students applying to U.S. graduate programs...
Still, the study highlighted some encouraging trends. For instance, the percentage of teens who spent more than three hours a day in front of the TV dropped from 1999 to 2007, from 43% to 35%. While Wang acknowledges that students may simply be substituting computer or other sedentary screen time for television-viewing, he notes that it's still a trend in the right direction. Far from being an excuse not to exercise, Wang sees the data as a wake-up call for parents and teens. "The important message is that compared to the recommendations for physical activity, the physical...
...Worrying Trend The world's tuna trade is an awesome 21st century hunt. Ancient Greeks used to stand on bluffs to watch for schools of tuna passing the shore. Today, fishing fleets stalk the fish across thousands of miles of ocean with helicopters, GPS and sonar. In 1950, about 600,000 tons of tuna were caught worldwide. Last year, that figure hit nearly 6 million tons, the prize of a chase that plays out from the Philippines to Canada's Prince Edward Island...
...trend hit two Harvard Square businesses this weekend. Sweet offered cupcakes with the Mad Men logo while playing 1960s music, and Noir at the Charles Hotel offered Draper’s Drink cocktails and Ritz cracker retro snacks to customers watching the season finale...
Following a trend Harvard has developed in the latter part of the season, the Crimson fell behind early to the Lions. A Columbia penalty corner shot was blocked, but the Lions’ Maggie O’Connor corralled the rebound and notched her first goal of the season to put Columbia ahead, 1-0, just three minutes into the contest...