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Grand Theft Auto: Newspaper Delivery Trucks
Unprepared Hiker Injured in Tuckerman Ravine
Ukrainian Drone Damages Russian Naval Ship
A new study by Opportunity Insights, based at Harvard University, has found that students from the wealthiest families are far more likely to attend Ivy League schools than their less affluent peers with the same test scores, especially at Dartmouth College. Similar trends were identified at other Ivy League and elite institutions.
Students from families earning more than $611,000 a year were more than twice as likely to attend Dartmouth as other students, with the advantage even more pronounced at the highest income levels. Students from wealthy families in the top 0.1% were 4.4 times as likely to attend Dartmouth.
Those trends were not apparent at public universities. Students from wealthy families attending the University of New Hampshire, for instance, did not appear to have a clear admissions advantage over others with the same test scores.
Athletic admissions and the families’ legacy status — having other family members who are alumni — appear to be the major factors in having wealthier students admitted to elite colleges. Letters of recommendation and extracurricular activities which are much more accessible to the wealthy also helped gain admission to those institutions.
Grand Theft Auto: Newspaper Delivery Trucks
Police have arrested a suspect in the theft of two newspaper delivery vehicles on August 3, including one containing about 2,000 copies of the Thursday edition of the Laconia Daily Sun.
Police were able to track the Sun delivery vehicle, taken from the Union Avenue Circle K in Laconia, using the GPS signal from the 2016 Toyota RAV4. The vehicle was abandoned in Fairfield, Connecticut, when the thief stole a second newspaper delivery vehicle and continued to New Jersey, where state police took the driver into custody.
When the Sun delivery driver notified Laconia Police of the theft just before 1 a.m., police gave chase in Belmont until determining that the rate of speed threatened public safety. The driver of the second stolen vehicle had left it running while using the restroom at a Connecticut gas station, making it easy for the thief to take it.
Unprepared Hiker Injured in Tuckerman Ravine
Aron Israel, 47, of Spring Valley, New York had to be rescued from Tuckerman Ravine on August 1 after attempting to hike from the summit of Mount Washington to meet family members who were coming up the trail.
Israel had driven to the summit, with a group of family members and friends, along the private Mount Washington Auto Road, but began his hike down without food, water, or warm clothing. When he fell and injured his ankle a little after 4:30 p.m., he called 911 to ask for assistance. The temperature on the summit at that time was 37 degrees, with a wind chill of 28 degrees and wind gusts as much as 54 miles per hour.
A conservation officer with the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department asked for assistance from the Appalachian Mountain Club to bring fluids, food, and warm clothing, and personnel also responded from the Androscoggin Valley Search and Rescue Team and from SOLO Schools of Conway, which had been conducting a Wilderness EMT class. The rescue crews reached Israel at 7:20 p.m., rendering first aid, stabilizing his ankle, and packaging him up in a warm sleeping bag in a litter. The rescue crew reached the summit about 8:30 p.m. and took Israel to the back of a conservation officer’s truck to drive down to the waiting Gorham Ambulance. Israel then was treated at Androscoggin Valley Hospital.
Ukrainian Drone Damages Russian Naval Ship
Ukraine says one its naval drones has struck and damaged a Russian naval ship in the Black Sea, near the Russian port of Novorossiysk — a major hub for Russian exports.
Sea drones — small, unmanned vessels that operate on or below the water’s surface — can carry a payload, and Ukraine says the drone that struck the ship was carrying 992 pounds of dynamite.
After the assault, the Novorossiysk port temporarily suspended any movement of ships, according to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which loads oil onto tankers at the port.
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