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With a student-to-faculty ratio more than three times the size of the average Harvard social science department, Social Studies’ most acute weaknesses is the lack of senior faculty members teaching in the program, the report states...
...relations, and was debated endlessly in City Hall and University Hall.On foot or on wheels, Harvard men had to traverse an area that already sported one of the highest traffic densities in the nation. With approximately one car for every three people, Cambridge’s car to person ratio was significantly higher than the national average—approximately one for every four people. This easily outstripped second-place Canada’s 1:20 ratio and China’s 1:8,000. In addition, a daily influx of almost 250,000 non-resident vehicles crowded the historic...
...Iraqi conflict may eventually become known as the "survivors' war," because of the all-time high ratio of wounded who returned home alive. I was one of them, thanks partly to the Army field hospital featured in HBO's extraordinary documentary, "Baghdad ER." Injured in a grenade attack while reporting on a December 2003 patrol, I was sent to a facility built by Saddam Hussein for his inner circle and commandeered by the U.S. military. Doctors operated on what was left of my right arm and sent me to Germany three days later, giving me a generally favorable impression...
...PARENT would fight to get a child placed here. Who wouldn't want this calm, orderly world for an anxious child with all the sensitivities of autism? Alpine, in Paramus, N.J., has 28 students, ages 3 to 21, in six gleaming, light-filled classrooms. The staff-to-child ratio is 1 to 1. The $72,223 tuition is covered by the state--federal law requires a free education for children with disabilities in an "appropriate" setting...
...from 49.5 percent in 2009. The undergraduate student body as a whole has an even distribution between males and females. The gender gap at Harvard trails the national statistics presented in the Harvard study because “the more selective the college, the lower will be the ratio of females to males even if admissions were on a gender-blind basis,” said Goldin. The reason for this is that the most dominant female-to-male ratios occur among lower socioeconomic status families, while the ratio among wealthier families is more balanced. Katz said that...