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NY Times Projections Indicate Increased Admissions Rates at Most Colleges in Near Future 2008-03-09 15:43:44 A New York Times
article today, entitled “Math Suggests College Frenzy Will Soon Ease”, declares today’s borderline-insane selectivity indices for elite colleges will soon become more reasonable, as the number of high school graduates is expected to peak this year and then steadily decrease until 2015. Essentially, this correlates to fewer college applications and thus increased acceptance rates at [...] Read more:Projections
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it’s official: ronaldinho makes more money than me 2008-03-07 23:47:25
(First, Apologies for the lack of posts lately — teachers have been piling on the work with only one week left before spring break!)
Indeed, the Portugese website Futebol Finance, which I’m guessing analyzes and pours over soccer-related data and statistics, released a list of the 50 highest paid socccer players in the world a few [...] Read more:ronaldinho
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what we’re reading 2008-03-03 17:43:16 Time | Carolyn Sayre
The beard brigade
Time reports on the renewed popularity of the beard – that, Huntingtown students knew. What is news is the existence of international facial-hair-growing competitions: Beard Team USA finished first in five out of seventeen competitions last year, including freestyle mustache.
US News & World Report | Eddy Ramirez
Before that diploma, [...]
Thoughts on managing time and school organizations 2008-02-25 16:07:50 My written introduction that accompanied my acceptance (and check) in the National Honor Society this week was decidedly minimalist: Kyle Hutzler is the president of Future Business Leaders of America and the United Nations Association. Both are personally important to me with my interest in business and politics, yet also challenging as a leader. [...]
NY Times Exposes McCain, Or Does it? 2008-02-21 18:34:25 – “Boy am I incensed.”
How about today’s NY Times
John McCain
Story? The story, admittedly based off of anecdotal evidence from McCain’s former advisers, romantically links the Republican front-runner with a lobbyist. I find this especially intriguing as the Times had actually endorsed McCain earlier this year — yet this comes at an especially [...]
what we’re watching (updated) 2008-02-18 14:58:56 THE UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE RETURNS.
Liverpool FC vs. Inter Milan
Tue., Feb. 19 at 2:30 pm ET
Winner: Liverpool 2-0 in dramatic fashion, scoring both goals in the closing minutes after a tedious first half noted only for the sending-off of Marco Materazzi (infamous for his role in the 2006 World Cup Final Head-butt). Roma shocked Real Madrid [...]
what we’re reading 2008-02-14 06:53:05 Time has an exceptional 46-page feature on love: the science of it (with enough ventral tegmentals to keep AP Psych students occupied) to the art of flirting. Two pages worth of ordinary love letters (the better to learn from) and a story on the perils of crazy love (featuring King Kong) make an appearance [...]
Update 2008-02-13 16:39:47 We’re still alive. Sorry for the dearth of posts lately; school, after school activities, papers, and tests have caught up with us.
Expect posts in the coming days or next week. Here’s some news that should keep you busy until next time:
First an interesting, random tidbit from The Lede of the New York Times:
Iranian government officials, (not so much actual Iranians) [...] Read more:Update
what we’re reading 2008-02-08 19:10:33 Department of deprivation research
The Wall Street Journal reports on Burger King’s Whopper hoax, in which two Nevada stores claimed that the company had discontinued the signature burger, causing fierce reactions from customers who were caught on camera. The commercial is a rarity for the otherwise quiet use of “deprivation research” by companies to see [...]
English Premier League Fandom To Decide Election. 2008-02-02 13:38:43 The Sun’s mockup of Presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
Yes that is Barack Obama. Wearing a West Ham kit. In Anton Ferdinand’s body.
Edited by England’s notorious tabloid The Sun, Bizzare Editor Gordon Smart (yes that is his title and no I am not making this up) entitled the scoop: Obama forever blowing bubbles - an allusion to the [...] Read more:English
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what we’re reading 2008-03-13 18:09:08 “A Full Kid Press” | Amy Orndorff
The KidsPost isn’t the first place I look for stories for the Reader - but this week’s article on the kid reporters who are covering the presidential election for Scholastic News caught my eye as a former member on the Scholastic Kids Council back in fifth grade.
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what we’re reading 2008-03-19 15:06:03 In one of my favorite episodes of The Office (which returns April 10th), Michael, played by Steve Carell, blindly follows his GPS system into Lake Scranton. Jennifer Saranow reports in The Wall Street Journal that he is not alone: the dramatic fall in navigation systems (halved to $225 last Christmas) means that some 49 [...]
incandescent iconoclast 2008-03-17 22:45:37 Ah, the acrimony! As you all know, Eliot Spitzer’s well-documented escapades in downtown DC with “Kristen” have duly left him unemployed, for the time being, and perhaps quite awhile.
The New Yorker offers an interesting perspective on the scandal, juxtaposing the draconian ramafications for America’s libidinous politicians with those of their European counterparts, who find no [...]
what we’re reading 2008-03-28 19:03:35 From Hoops to Hipsters
The Washington Post
“Half the history of Converse is about basketball, and the rest is about something far more complicated, about the ways a plain sneaker is consistently adored by anticonsumer consumers,” Hank Steuver writes on the shoes’ 100-year anniversary.
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Young Drivers on the Radar
The Wall Street Journal
According to the National Highway [...]
both ends of the education spectrum 2008-04-03 15:20:37 The New York Times reports that the elite, Ivy-league schools have admitted a fewer percentage of applicants than ever before. Harvard accepted 7.1% of the 27,462 applicants - letting in about 7 students in a 100! This notwithstanding, admissions rates are expected to climb higher in the coming years after hitting all time lows this year [...]
what we’re reading 2008-04-10 14:44:55 and occasionally watching too. Frontline reports on how the Internet is changing childhood in the first generation to grow up with the Internet - the entire program is available online. Elsewhere, Anne Trubek, a college professor, freelance writer, and parent writes on the increasing irrelevancy of handwriting. “Boys and girls, it’s time to put down [...]
of visitors, stress, exams, college, and stress 2008-04-11 20:01:54 The clustr map above manifests that the preponderance of EIC viewers are from the US (as we expected), but we have surprisingly landed hits from every continent except for Antarctica. The most hits in the US are from the NYC area, LA, San Francisco, a major Texas city (either Houston or Dallas I’m assuming), and [...] Read more:stress
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what we’re reading 2008-04-18 21:37:05 From the Wall Street Journal this week: a profile of three college super-delegates who have become important to the Obama and Clinton campaigns. Also, a look at hooking-up among campaign staffers - Amy Chozick’s article notes that Sen. Bill Bradley’s 2000 camaign resulted in at least five marriages and six babies.
Record setters. (Updated) 2008-04-23 16:11:29 Update 845 ET: Make that 5 times our normal traffic today! With some thoughtful comments from everyone as well. Thanks everyone for reading! And keep coming back!
Thanks everyone for making today already the most successful day in the EIC history; it’s only 5pm and we’ve already trounced our previous (albeit small) one day total by more than THREE [...] Read more:Record
how inglorious the end 2008-04-22 16:58:07 John Arne Riise’s late own goal in the 95th minute (the last minute of stoppage time!!) doomed European giants Liverpool to a 1-1 draw withLondon rivals Chelsea just a few hours ago. To be fair, a lucky bounce coupled with an uncharacteristic comedy of errors helped Dutch winger Dirk Kuyt’s opening goal bounce under Petr Cech, [...]
what we’re reading 2008-04-24 16:52:05 On The New Republic’s The Plank, a how-to guide on how to survive a Colbert interview. To put Colbert on the defensive, Thomas Schaller writes, make some of your answers less than a sentence to throw him off. Colbert has to ad-lib the transition from one question to the next. The more you say, the [...]
Is too much AP bad for everyone? Is senioritis actually good? Jay Mathews knows all. 2008-04-24 14:32:54 Jay Mathews is probably the world’s only exclusive education columnist. And he’s also probably the first person I’ve ever heard to extol the benefits of senioritis, or even assert that such benefits exist! Mathews, the creator of the renowned Challenge Index - a ranking system of high schools based on the number of kids taking [...] Read more:everyone
Best Advert of the Year 2008-04-29 21:15:22 Created by Madonna’s husband, Guy Ritchie, for Nike. Really unique: this was shot using a microscopic camera on a players head: what you see is what the player sees during a match. (I’m going to guess they used Theo Walcott or Robin van Persie as the player.) If your not attuned to soccer at all here’s a short [...] Read more:Advert
crunch time. 2008-05-03 20:59:53 AP Stats Exam. Tuesday 12pm.
AP United States History Exam. Friday 8am.
Both > 3 hours.
EIC will be on hiatus for a bit.
Milestone. 2008-05-18 13:29:39 On this rainy, unglamorous Sunday, as I began to restore some of the lost content/widgets on the blog (they’re all back now!), I thought to myself, how long have we been doing this?
So I peer through the archives and behold:
Today marks nearly the 6th month the EIC has been in business!
I started the blog at [...]
what we’re reading 2008-05-18 10:24:30 The Wall Street Journal on how elementary school fundraisers have perverted our childhood. / With less than a third of teenagers with real jobs this summer, a profile of teenagers who are making as much as $2,000 per month as virtual contractors and designers on Second Life for their summer job. / GameDaily speculates that [...]
what we’re reading 2008-05-21 14:25:25 Newsweek released their 2008 rankings of the best high schools in America. Huntingtown slipped to 568th, 144 positions below last year’s rank of 424th (which was a marked improvement on 2006’s 891st ranking). Jay Mathews explains the methodology behind the rankings here.
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We’re also following the Washington Post’s weeklong series on chidlhood obesity: poor [...]
Red Devils Rejoice 2008-05-21 19:51:38 Manchester United hoisted its 3rd UEFA Champions League trophy in Moscow today after narrowly defeating bete noire Cheslea FC 6-5 on penalty kicks, after a 1-1 stalemate in normal and extra time. The scoreline, however, belied Chelsea’s increasing domination of the game, especially towards the latter stages of normal and extra time.
Soccernet’s Richard Jolly comments on [...]
what we’re reading 2008-06-03 15:01:42 The Smithsonian explores the march towards absolute zero - while NOVA asks if an absolute maximum temperature exists. / The Wall Street Journal on expecting families who are giving their first baby (read: dog) sensitivity training. / Theyrule offers an interactive guide to the networks that connect the directors of the world’s largest corporations.
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