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...College is already doing an admirable job of promoting socioeconomic diversity at the initial stage of the process: ZIP codes and Census data help identify low-income students, and Harvard courts them enthusiastically. And after decisions are made, Harvard exempts low-income parents from tuition payments. The problem emerges at the intermediate stage: the application review...
...also slightly lower in the group that reduced sodium intake, although not statistically significant. Most Americans consume much more than the recommended maximum amount of 2,300 milligrams of sodium per day, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s annual dietary guidelines. Yet Cook said the problem is difficult to address because it depends on more than consumer choice. “Most of the sodium we eat comes from processed food and restaurant meals, so if we can reduce the sodium in those foods, it would go a long way to reducing the whole population?...
...Although the episode did not, as it turned out, end his career, it marked the beginning of rumors about his drinking problem that dogged him to his final days. Propaganda officials were instructed at the time to hint that Yeltsin had been dismissed for delivering a drunken diatribe - an accusation that may have been true, judging by subsequent lapses in his public behavior. The CIA reported during the 1990s that Yeltsin was an alcoholic, subject to occasional binges that kept him out of action for days at a time and led to sudden cancellations of meetings with key foreign visitors...
...would come out of his shell sooner or later. "I told her he was just shy and had a soft personality." However, she says that other relatives were less optimistic about his shortcomings and reportedly saw his aloofness as dysfunctional and a telltale sign of a looming mental problem...
...problem with that partisan analysis is that Royal rejected calls to merge campaigns with Bayrou. And now, even after Sunday's results, Bayrou is demarcating his territory. In a speech after the first results came in, rather than conceding defeat Bayrou declared victory for "a large and independent center [party], capable of speaking and acting above outdated cleavages". Promising "from this evening on, French politics will change and will never again be the same," Bayrou warned that any presidential finalist wanting his endorsement will have to acknowledge "a new kind of politics is being born and the hope...