Word: trended
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...think it is fair to say that in many cases a candidate from a community college would indeed increase the diversity of the student body here,” she said.Although Harvard’s efforts to encourage applications from community college students are limited, there is a national trend indicating an increase in the number of four year colleges and universities seeking to admit these students. Many colleges try to attract such applicants using articulation agreements, which provide for the automatic transfer of community college graduates to four year universities. Most recently, the University of Virginia (UVA) instituted...
...This trend is likely to persist, in part because it isn't just wealth that's moving from West to East. Each time manufacturing and services are outsourced to Asia, knowledge, technology and skills are also transferred. Professor Richard Smalley, a Nobel-Prizewinning chemist at Rice University, estimated that by 2010, 90% of all Ph.Ds in physical science and engineering may be living in Asia. With economic prowess comes geopolitical power. For many countries, exports to China have replaced exports to the U.S. as engines of growth?one reason why a longtime U.S. ally like South Korea is cozying...
...Department of Education reported in 2003 that 2.2 percent of the American school-age population was homeschooled. And experts at the Graduate School of Education say that a majority of those families choose to homeschool their children for religious reasons. But even as the homeschooling trend takes root nationwide, a disproportionately tiny number of these students ever win entry to Harvard.‘A GROWTH INDUSTRY’In 1989, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said that around five to 10 homeschooled students applied to Harvard yearly.Following the rise...
...elaborate makeover parties for girls as young as 4 at a relatively reasonable $21 a head. They can strut down a catwalk, don mock Madonna headset microphones and pester their parents to buy Role Model perfume or a LOCAL CELEBRITY T shirt. It would be easy to bemoan the trend as the end of childhood or the corruption of innocence. But the hunger for recognition doesn't end with the acquisition of a driver's license. As popular culture divides into ever more finely split niches, with Yahoo Groups and blogs touting the cream of whatever subculture you can think...
...Manliness” skirts irrelevance by positing itself as a response to the current trend towards a gender-neutral society. Mansfield convincingly argues that the gender-neutrality revolution represents an unprecedented shift in human social organization: no society before our own has so programmatically sought to eliminate gender as a criterion for determining occupation and social role...