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...DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN runs an interesting piece on websites that predict your chances of getting into particular schools: Questions range from the basic to the blunt. ThickEnvelope, for example, asks clients: "Would you say that your mother or father is a nationally recognized, very important person or well-known celebrity?"What the DP doesn't do, but could have, is pay for some ex-post-facto predicting, checking to see if the sites are any good at guessing whether current Penn students would be admitted to the school...
Other businesses are signing on too, some choosing scents that carry apt connotations for particular products they want to sell, a technique called billboarding. Bloomingdale's, for instance, billboards the smell of baby powder in its infant-clothing department, while hints of lilac and coconut waft around the department store's intimate-apparel and swimsuit displays. One of ScentAir's most popular aromas, freshly baked chocolate-chip cookies, has been adopted widely by sellers of model houses and real estate agents in North Carolina to make prospective buyers feel at home the instant they walk in. Upscale ice cream chain...
...particularly encourage op-ed submissions from individual writers who may have a particular connection to the topic they are writing about, and we require that all op-eds be signed by those individuals (up to three); we will not accept for publication articles that have been authored by an organization as a whole or pieces written under pseudonym. Op-eds are meant to examine a particular argument, not make a pitch for a particular upcoming event, and we reserve the right to edit out such references. Finally, we also consider op-art submissions, including annotated charts, a series of drawings...
...strive for balance in the letters section. Though The Crimson Staff may have a particular view on a subject, the letters section itself does not. Accordingly, we eagerly print letters of all stripes. Though we often will print letters from professors or other authorities in a particular field, we are especially interested in the views of students and other readers...
...same way, we face a choice around the rituals of burial and healing. Is it proper to stick to one?s normal scripted rituals, or does this particular trauma call for something extra, something improvised...