Word: differences
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...also accomplished as a compiler of Russian jokes, which differ from Western humor by being much drier and often rather clunky, but are always pregnant with political satire...
...alike have come to expect varsity sports at colleges." Agreed. Harvard officials point out that most schools bend the admissions standards far further. We agree again. But they have also claimed that some measure of preferential treatment is necessary to support a competitive Division I program. Here we must differ. We believe that if the price of "competitive" teams is lowering standards, we should be content to be uncompetitive or to compete at a lower level...
Harvard has devised a more equitable application form for international applicants that takes into account educational experiences that differ from the American model. International admissions officers travel the world to visit schools and make people aware of the many possibilities for university education that exist. These officers should take special care to seek out students in the public education system, rather than in elite "international" schools...
...obvious that the values of women differ very often from the values which have been made by the other sex...It is the masculine values that prevail...
Women's hearts also differ markedly from men's. Not only does cardiovascular disease strike women later in life, but blood cholesterol levels seem to play a somewhat different role in female patients. Dr. John Crouse, a lipids researcher at Bowman Gray School of Medicine in North Carolina, notes that women seem to be less vulnerable than men to high levels of LDL, the so-called bad cholesterol, and more vulnerable to low levels of HDL, the "good" cholesterol. Diets that reduce both levels, such as the one promoted by the American Heart Association, may actually harm women, Crouse argues...