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Fitzsimmons said that he believes President Faust and Dean Smith’s firm commitment to financial aid will benefit this year’s yield and attract strong applicant pools in the years ahead, regardless of the tuition increase...
...Less studied, though, is the "genetic dillution effect," in which selective breeding to increase crop yield has led to declines in protein, amino acids, and as many as six minerals in one study of commercial broccoli grown in 1996 and '97 in South Carolina. Because nearly 90% of dry matter is carbohydrates, "when breeders select for high yield, they are, in effect, selecting mostly for high carbohydrate with no assurance that dozens of other nutrients and thousands of phytochemicals will all increase in proportion to yield...
...Both the 1933 panic and the current credit crisis yield the same message: strong, cooperative leadership from the Fed is the key to inspiring confidence in both consumers and major private sector actors. Like any executive action, this leadership demands rationale—a justification for others to invest. Geithner must look to the failures of his predecessors in order to succeed...
...personally pleased as a sociology concentrator” to hear of the appointment. Biggers, who listed House Master diversity as one of her key campaign planks in an unsuccessful bid for the Undergraduate Council vice presidency this fall, reiterated her hopes yesterday evening that future House Master searches could yield minority selections. “Its not surprising,” she said of the Christakis selection. “I hope that when other house master positions become open, they can consider minorities...but I can’t belittle [Christakis’] qualifications.”Dean...
...does it matter who oversees the census? In very general terms, Republicans would prefer to err on the side of undercounting and Democrats would prefer to err on the side of overcounting. The options can yield very different numbers for demographic groups and localities - and they have significant political and policy implications. This most recent skirmish is more manufactured than real, the result of willful misunderstandings. But it has its roots in an ongoing battle over whom the census counts...