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AROUND ACADEME

College graduation rates available
The Education Trust has made publicly available a database of graduation and retention rates of more than 1,400 colleges and universities. The database was compiled to allow colleges to compare themselves with similar institutions and to help poorer-performing schools to learn what measures can be taken to increase retention and graduation rates among their students. High school students and counselors can also access the data to determine which schools have the highest success rates. The database can be accessed on the Education Trust Web site (http://www2.edtrust.org/edtrust/collegeresults).

Biosphere for sale
If you can cough up the millions, you can buy Biosphere 2, a giant terrarium built in the Arizona desert that houses a sampling of the earth’s ecological systems. The steel-framed glass structure, built in 1991 by a Texas oil billionaire, was used by Columbia University as a research center from 1996 to 2003, after completion of the original Biosphere project, in which eight people were to live in the dome for two years without any contact with the world outside the building. The experiment was discredited when it was discovered that oxygen was being supplied from an outside source.
—Susan Myers Smith
 
 


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