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...training, Hirschman felt early on that he should put his dual expertise in radio and medicine to use on the high seas—where paramedics couldn’t reach...
...Boston school district and 31% in the state; in English, 22% of Renaissance eighth-graders failed, compared with 20% citywide and 8% statewide. Edison spokesman Adam Tucker concedes that "none of us felt test scores were improving as quickly as they should" at Renaissance, but he says that a dual-management structure in which the school principal reported to both Edison and a local charter-school board was restricting. He says that Renaissance is an anomaly for Edison, which operates 136 schools serving 75,000 students in 22 states. According to Edison statistics, the average annual gain in test scores...
This isn’t the last time Harvard will see these competitors—IRAs, the regatta to determine the national champion begin on May 31th. Last year, Harvard beat Yale out after losing to the Elis in both dual competition and at Eastern sprints...
...Bush Administration, trying to justify continued sanctions, cites not only human rights abuses but also alleges that Cuba exports dual-use technology that could be used to produce biological weapons to terrorist-sponsoring states—which Castro has vehemently denied. But even if Cuba has been exporting this type of technology, maintaining the embargo will do little to encourage it to stop. Opening up the possibility of trade with the U.S. might do more to draw Cuba away from contacts with countries like Syria and Libya...
...agreed on new guidelines for sanctions against Iraq, but a vote on the revised package was delayed at the request of Russia and Syria. The resolution provides for a "goods review" list, enabling civilian supplies to reach the Iraqi population more quickly while maintaining a ban on military or "dual purpose" imports...