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...HIGHER EDUCATION 100 Age, in years, of Harvard University's Masters in Business Administration program, the world's oldest 500,000 Expected number of MBA graduates globally in 2008. In China, the figure has gone from zero to 30,000 in the past 10 years...
...shortages may still filter down to the world's poorest countries. To put the problem in perspective, the Philippines, which faces the most acute rice shortage in Asia, imports just 15% of its rice; many countries in sub-Saharan Africa import up to 40%. Tight world supplies create a zero-sum calculus: Vietnamese rice going to the Philippines is rice that is unavailable for Africa - or for the NGOs that feed the world's most vulnerable populations. "A lot of people don't realize that Africa's rice depends on Asia's surpluses," says the Rice Institute's Zeigler...
...Expected number of M.B.A. graduates globally in 2008. In China, the number has gone from zero to 30,000 in the past decade...
...evolution equals an evolutionary ocean. Even the most liberated humans would hesitate to have sex in front of complete strangers. And bonobos aren't likely to harness fire or invent the wheel or the Internet soon. Still, for too long the study of nature has been the study of zero-sum savagery--a universal bloodlust that allows us to shrug at our own brutality, reckoning that mere animals like us can hardly be expected to do better. Discovering such close genetic cousins who behave themselves so well--even sometimes--ought to give us pause. There are already plenty of reasons...
Harvard’s objective? Number one in the US News rankings. Princeton’s got nothing on a zero percent acceptance rate...