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Some of that comes from attrition. Thirty employees from the administrative and support staffs are no longer in the Faculty, ten opting for last fall's early retirement program, the other 20 either transfers to other Harvard faculties (a zero-sum gain for the University) or people who left under other circumstances...
Critics of Harvard's admissions policies must realize that the process is a zero-sum game. It is impossible for other minority groups to increase their representations without a corresponding decrease in the enrollment of other groups in the college, namely Asian Americans and whites.. Calls for increased minority representation must keep the interests of all minorities in mind...
...Goliath, commanding the 100-person team of Operation ATLAS the most critical mission in the history of space exploration. Toby, and the stepmothers and stepfathers of his extended family, remained behind on a distant world which Singh could never revisit. Decades in space -- and neglect of the mandatory zero-G exercises -- had so weakened him that he could now walk only on the Moon and Mars. Gravity had exiled him from the planet of his birth...
...facing his awesome responsibility. Then he sighed and removed the neural-input cap that fitted snugly over his skull and had enabled him to call up his distant past. Like all spacers, Captain Singh belonged to the "Bald Is Beautiful" school, if only because wigs were a nuisance in zero gravity. The social historians were still staggered by the fact that one invention, the portable "Brainman," could make bare heads the norm within a single decade. Not even quick-change skin coloring, or the lens- corrective laser shaping which had abolished eyeglasses, had made such an impact upon style...
...best hope for both humanity and other life-forms would be to cut human propagation in half, so the world's numbers do not exceed 8 billion by mid- century. (The only event in which the earth would achieve zero population growth or even shrinkage would be some environmental or social catastrophe.) The huge run-up in human numbers has foreclosed most options and shortened the amount of time available to come to grips with rising threats to the environment, contends systems analyst Donella Meadows, co-author of Beyond the Limits, which updates the controversial 1972 blockbuster The Limits...