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...more refined way to target schools and regions for recruitment of students who would not otherwise think of applying to Harvard. The change was also intended to make the college admissions process simpler and fairer for high school seniors, especially for students from low-income families. Applicants from well-off backgrounds were more likely to apply early under the previous system, disadvantaging students with fewer college-counseling resources at hand. Combined with the additional recruitment, Harvard’s policy should make for a more diverse and interesting class. Though there has been concern in some quarters that ending early...
...herself, and experimenting with techniques of producing batik, including the use of hand-woven silk instead of the usual cottons. When, at the age of 31, she finally opened a small outlet for her designs in central Jakarta, she became an immediate hit among the élite neighborhood's well-off shoppers. "Obin led a revolution in modernizing batik by translating traditional motifs into contemporary design," explains leading local fashion designer Ghea Panggabean...
...optimism broke on the rocks of realism. How can any fractional reduction in energy consumption or carbon dioxide (CO2) output in a small region of well-off America make a noticeable difference while mammoth developing nations such as China and India go on a rampage of power plant-building and car-buying? Will the environmental blindness of the economic growth of these and other developing countries—not to mention continued energy-intensive expansion in America—nullify the effect of every green project for years to come...
...grew up in New Orleans, went to a private school there and have since been acutely aware of how, in almost every American city, there is a two-tiered education system: one for the poor and one for the well-off. That's why I joined the board of Teach for America, which recruits top college graduates to spend two or three years teaching in poor districts, and why I became a supporter of more competition and choice and charter schools in the public education system. So I was eager to see whether the clean slate offered by post-Katrina...
...aside from just flying less, as the Heathrow activists demanded. And there's little sign of that happening, as air passenger numbers rose 6.3% globally through the first half of 2007. So, expect similar protests in the future. The activists at Heathrow threw out a moral challenge to those well-off on a global scale (anyone who can afford a JetBlue ticket) to stop flying in order to save the poor from the effects of climate change. It's not quite that simple, but until technology and policy catch up - which still seems a long way off - carbon emissions will...