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Likewise, I have suffered through notorious blackboards: the bobbing layers of Geological Sciences Laboratory classrooms, the odd lighting in Science Center D, the squeaky free-standing board on the Science Center's eighth floor. (Among 20 students, the only thing moving was the edge of the blackboard...
...Mass., teenager had a history of mental illness and had even attempted to kill herself. During her junior year of college, she tried again. On a February morning in 1998, just days after a campus counselor recommended she be hospitalized for her suicidal tendencies, Rutnam threw herself off the eighth floor of a Syracuse dormitory and fell 90 ft. to the patio below...
School officials offered that option to eighth-graders for the first time last spring. But they only budgeted for 10 students, which translates into a shortfall for this year's school budget...
Harvard performed well across the board at the meet, in which the upstart program faced the fourth, sixth and eighth-ranked teams in the country in Iowa State, Oklahoma and Nebraska, respectively. Although the Crimson fell to all three opponents, Harvard picked up several substantial individual victories and lost close matches to several ranked opponents...
...UCSD started from scratch, donating land worth $8 million and securing $13 million in private donations to build Preuss and prepare its prospective minority students. The state and local school district agreed to pay staff salaries and operating expenses. The school opened in fall 1999 with 150 sixth- through eighth-graders (out of 500 who applied), all of whom are poor enough to qualify for subsidized lunches--and are set to be the first in their families to graduate from four-year colleges. By 2004, Preuss will serve 700 students in grades six through...