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There will be plenty to process when Kyodo Senpaku's fleet returns this month. Japan has in recent years steadily upped the number of whales it harpoons around the Antarctic, despite repeated condemnations from the IWC. The group last year voted against the country's plans to expand its quota; Japan has done so anyway. This year its "scientific" expedition is scheduled to haul in 1,240 whales, mainly minkes, but also 100 sei whales, 10 sperm whales and 10 fin whales, all of which are endangered. That's twice as many as were taken in 2000, more than even...
Since the landmark 1978 Bakke Supreme Court decision that barred universities from using quota systems, HMS has used a two-tiered system in which applications from under-represented minorities—defined as African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans—are evaluated by a dedicated subcommittee before being pooled with the rest of the applicants for a final decision, according to Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, HMS associate dean for student affairs...
...competition to remain fair. The president of Yale’s blood drive program, Irving Ye, thinks that the point system should be modified to better reflect the college’s differences before next year’s drive. This year, Harvard managed to raise its blood quota by nearly 12 percent. Yale’s total dropped more than 6 percent from last year. Ye said that the competitive element raised attendance at Yale but added that most people had humanitarian motivations for donating. “I honestly don’t think that people give blood...
...committee contacts the Office of the Registrar and asks for a list of students in descending order of grade-point averages, separated by field of study. Based on the percentage of students enrolled in a particular concentration within a given class, the committee assigns each field a specific quota. The grade-point average list for each field is then cut off by that quota. “We try to elect people in the right proportion of their fields,” Coakley said. After students are nominated for a round, they are asked to submit two letters of recommendation...
...Japan and Korea are prime examples of highly industrialized nations trying to hold onto an identity that is rooted in an agrarian past. The two countries maintain some of the highest barriers to an imported food staple in the world. South Korea maintains a strict quota that limits rice imports to just 4% of the country's total annual consumption. About 7% of Japanese consumption is accounted for by imported rice, but hardly any of it actually reaches supermarkets. Much of it is stuffed into government surplus warehouses or passed on to other countries as food aid. Foreign rice that...