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...They're Web-Friendly. If anyone loves lists more than the mainstream media do, it's the non-mainstream media. A Google blog search for "Top 10 list" returns rankings of "ways investing is like sex," "hottest smart girls in Hollywood" and "reasons why you should not stop posting Top 10 lists," from Cornwallseo.com a website about maximizing website traffic. Lists are inherently bloggy. They're bite-size, they're opinionated, and they're a guaranteed spur to conversation, which is to say argument. But hey, clicks are clicks...
...daily lives of the monkeys are carefully regulated. All proposals for research using vertebrate animals have to be approved by the IACUC, which has to follow a complex web of federal, state, city, andUniversity guidelines that protect the monkeys from physical and psychological stress...
...founder of Facebook Inc. did list tech support and computer programming on his 2001 application to Harvard. But the biggest component in Zuckerberg’s application wasn’t coding, but fencing. 02138 Magazine (which celebrates/lambastes Harvard alumni) posted Zuckerberg’s application on its Web site as part of “The Facebook Files,” which also includes documents being used as evidence in the court brawl between Facebook and ConnectU. The founders of ConnectU, another social networking company founded by former Harvard students, allege Zuckerberg stole the idea behind Facebook from them...
...competition will award $80,000 in cash grants and provide up to $40,000 in services for students to pursue innovative ventures. Michael Segal ’08, co-president of the Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum, said about 70 people have signed up on the competition’s Web site, i3.fas.harvard.edu, expressing interest in the challenge. Half of those who signed up are already working on a startup. The Entrepreneurship Forum teamed up with Harvard Student Agencies and the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH) to establish the challenge. Segal said it is the College?...
...rankings this summer. And in September, a conference at Yale sponsored by the non-profit group The Education Conservancy led to the “Beyond Ranking” campaign, an effort by college and university leaders to develop a “robust, nuanced, and educationally sound web-based system of information, guidance, and interactive tools—one that puts the educational needs of students center stage and restores educational integrity to college admissions.”While the available descriptions of the Beyond Ranking campaign leaves some important questions up in the air—qualitative comparisons...