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...report further suggested adding to students’ transcripts the percentage of A-range grades awarded in a course next to their grade in that course. This solution would particularly damage students by sending misleading information to those reading the transcript. Just because many students perform well in a class does not mean that their efforts should be perceived as less worthy. Some extremely advanced classes award a high percentage of As, but their students consistently produce superlative work. Harvard should be encouraging all its students to excel, not penalizing those classes that happen to have a high percentage...
...Science in the Public Interest, a Washington group sometimes dubbed the Food Police, asked the FDA and the E.U. to restrict Marlow from describing Quorn as mushroom-like. ("Not all fungi are mushrooms," the group intones.) Days before its complaint, however, CSPI's testers gave Quorn a "Best Bites" award. They acknowledged--we're not making this up--that it tastes like chicken...
...click on this comprehensive site. In addition to exhaustive histories of the regional producers, it offers a list of the internationally acclaimed wineries and detailed maps that make navigating among them a breeze?but make sure you're not behind the wheel after sampling one too many of those award-winning Chardonnays...
...College Football Hall of Fame, White was appointed to the court in 1962 by John F. Kennedy, served 31 years and was known for his conservative and often dissenting opinions, ruling on landmark decisions such as Miranda v. Arizona and Roe v. Wade. DIED. ROBERT URICH, 55, Emmy Award-winning actor best known for his starring roles in the television detective sagas Vega$ and Spenser: For Hire, of synovial cell sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that attacks the body's joints; in Thousand Oaks, California. DIED. RUTH FERTEL, 75, self-made success and founder of the international chain Ruth...
...award, set up by Terrie G. Fried Bloom ’75 five years ago, solicits peer nominations...