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Harvard has Radcliffe as an invaluable resource for women, which is why it is even more surprising that women are somehow slighted out of the science fields here. Not only do women fail the QRR test more often than their ratio would suggest, but women also constitute a very small number of the upper-level first-year math classes, Math...
Brown offers 15 women's varsity sports, well above the average of 8.3 for NCAA Division I schools, and has 324 female athletes, three times the national average. There are only 13 variety men's terms but more than 600 male athletes. The ratio of miles to females as of Dec. 5 was 60.33 percent to 39.67 percent...
...Harvard can solve the scoring woes and dominate on the boards, much of the remaining puzzle should fall into place. Harvard sports a particularly impressive takeaway to give-away ratio: 48 forced turnovers and 26 steals to 38 committed turnovers and 12 steals...
...slow spending at a time when stagnating incomes have forced millions of Americans to use credit cards for everything from dental bills to trips to the supermarket. Consumers owed nearly $4 trillion at the end of the second quarter; that equaled 81% of their disposable income, the highest such ratio on record. Experts estimate that last weeks rate hike could add as much as $20 billion next year to the interest paid on everything from credit cards to mortgages. Interest charges on bank and credit cards alone could jump $5 billion...
With the votes barely counted, the heated battle over California's Proposition 187 promptly shifted to the courts, following the measure's approval by a 3- to-2 ratio. Pending hearings, two judges temporarily blocked enforcement of the measure, which would deny most public services to illegal aliens and their children. All sides expect the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately to decide the initiative's constitutionality. Elsewhere, the electorate in seven states voted in favor of term limits for members of Congress. And in a groundbreaking vote, Oregonians approved a measure that will allow doctors in the state to help some...