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...then finally settling on the “right” choice can easily lead to disillusionment and frustration. Getting rid of early action will ease these daunting barriers, but the process cannot be truly meritocratic as long as preferences are given to alumni and athletes.The complex admissions process supposedly distinguishes the qualified from the unqualified, the very best from the merely very, very good. The current process, however, is hopelessly burdensome, inaccurate, and biased. Standardized tests, for example, separate the good test takers from bad test takers, rather than the best students from the next best. But Harvard College?...
...friend at school told her about an internship geared toward high schoolers at the Santa Fe Institute, a world-class scientific research center. The program paired six teens with top scientists to learn how to write computer programs modeling complex systems. Hale's project focuses on the dynamics of how people get on and off airplanes. "Even though it's not going to, like, affect the future of the world, it's a really cool problem to think about because everyone's experienced it," she says. "It's the first time I realized science is applicable to everyday life. Even...
...picture is plastered on school lockers, cell phones, screen savers and even cubicle walls. "There aren't many characters like him on TV," says Robert Thompson, professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University. "He's not only a Prince Charming, and a doctor, but he's more complex than a lot of men on television." Sums up Beers: "He's phenomenally appealing for a brain surgeon...
...more than 3,400 Medicare beneficiaries, three-fourths of whom said they're satisfied with the federally backed drug plan they picked. The program got off to a rocky start at the beginning of the year, when millions of seniors were frustrated by the sign-up process for the complex benefit or couldn't get their drugs after they enrolled because of computer glitches. But J.D. Power found that 45% of the seniors surveyed between June and September said they were "delighted" with their new coverage (giving it a 10 on a 10-point scale) while another 30% said they...
...rigorous exercise to get autistic children to start eating and sleeping regularly. And once those biorhythms are on track, students can begin to acquire basic living and academic skills. Within four months of being at Higashi, Luke went home for vacation mostly toilet trained. He has since conquered such complex tasks as riding a unicycle and walking on stilts--activities that have given him confidence to try other new things. "I do think he can have a life that's happy and maybe even productive," Jeff says. "If we had left him in the situation he was in, he would...