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...report shows that the numbers of the women and minorities in the ranks of so-called "ladder Faculty"--assistant and associate professors--are considerably higher. Women make up over one-third ofthe Faculty's 172 ladder Faculty, while minorities comprise 15.1 percent of the same group...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Diversity Among Faculty Increases | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

...gram is also a measurement of weight, but unlike the ounce, it is native to the metric system (used by virtually all non-English speaking countries). Here s a secret: one gram equals one-third of an ounce. Dining hall bowls come in essentially four different forms (there are actually seven subtle variants) as follows...

Author: By V.p. Demenil, | Title: Measure for Measure: Harvard Bowling | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

...Linsey Marr '96, senior project inspiration stood right in her common room. Working with a Boston design firm, she refitted a halogen lamp (not yet the bane of the FDO) with a fluorescent bulb and a more efficient reflector. The result used one-third the power and produced more light than the original, but you still couldn't dry your clothes...

Author: By Debra P. Hunter and Richard Parr, S | Title: IN THE MEANTIME Patent No. 02138 | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...Linsey Marr '96, senior project inspiration stood right in her common room. Working with a Boston design firm, she refitted a halogen lamp (not yet the bane of the FDO) with a fluorescent bulb and a more efficient reflector. The result used one-third the power and produced more light than the original, but you still couldn't dry your clothes...

Author: By With DEBRA P. hunter and Richard Parr, S | Title: Patent No. 02138: A Brief History of Undergraduate Inventions | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

Uncircumcised men are three times as likely to develop penile cancer, but, again, the absolute risk is quite low. Only about 9 U.S. men out of 1 million ever develop the disease. Circumcised men are one-third to one-half as likely to become infected after exposure to HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases. But they are not by any means immune, and the difference in infection rates would probably diminish among men who use condoms and practice safer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Circumcision: Unkindest Cut? | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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