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Remember free-body diagrams? Here’s a problem for you. Object A, the ball, is about to hurtle downward at a 45-degree angle, and your job is to figure out whether or not it will make contact with Projectile A, a receiver shot out like a cannon from a slant-and-go route and accelerating with every step. Ignore Projectile B, the defender a few steps behind, for a moment. He doesn’t matter...
...percent in the number of black students enrolling at Harvard, the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education found. This year Yale, Brown, Princeton, Brown and Columbia all have admitted larger percentages of black students to their first-year classes than Harvard. As Harvard considers its strategies for combating this downward trend and competes with these other top-tier schools for students who will continue its commitment to diversity, it should look to emulate the strategies employed by other schools to attract minority candidates...
...gets worse for Minnie. Living in a house geared toward alcoholism and drug use, with a completely non-functioning mother, Minnie spirals rapidly downward, desperately searching for something to fill her emptiness. At first she indulges in meaningless sexual encounters with boys at school. Then, helplessly, you read her thoughts as she falls in love with a downtown lesbian, Tabatha, who introduces Minnie to heroin, and eventually pimps Minnie out to whomever will supply them with drugs. One atrocity follows another in this poor girl's life, where even the suicide prevention operator ends up abusing...
...also predicted the Cambridge turnout for the general election to be 65-70 percent—a figure up from recent elections but part of a long-term downward trend in voter participation in the city...
...Insurers became the biggest investors in equity markets, alongside banks, holding more than 20% of the total European capitalization. Topping the list is Austria, whose insurers owned more than 50% of its domestic equity market in 2000. With markets falling to 1997 levels, insurers are now caught in a downward spiral: the more equity prices fall, the more the value of their capital drops, creating intense pressure to sell. But unloading stocks simply makes prices fall, thus further depleting insurers' capital base. The alternative is to beg shareholders for fresh capital - as many insurers have been forced...