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...yield for HFAI-qualifying students was down slightly from last year, a decrease Fitzsimmons attributed to increased competition from other universities following Byerly’s lead and expanding financial packages for low-income students...
...yesterday, 290 HFAI-qualifying students had accepted offers of admission, for a yield of 79 percent in this group, down about four percent from last year...
Although scientists have been working with nanowires and nanotubes for years, Lieber and Ham were able to make use of recent research into the physics of nanowire performance. Ham noted that this breakthrough was only possible because of the collaboration between chemists and engineers. Lieber developed high-yield nanowires with unique organizational structures while Ham provided circuit design expertise and assembly techniques...
...under climate regimes that are now being supplanted by new conditions, mostly warmer, some wetter, and some drier, and some rapidly alternating between wetter and drier. In many areas the unusually warm conditions of the last few years are bumping up against upper temperature limits for reproductive success and yield at harvest for some of our most important grain crops...
Reagan is determined not to yield on his Strategic Defense Initiative, insisting that research and testing would be within the bounds of the ABM Treaty and that any SDI developments could be shared with the Soviets...