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...know how to quantify these views even if the figures were made available, and perhaps they are not quantifiable. Those who demand figures from me should be addressing President Rudenstine, who has the access to them that I lack. I do not claim to be an expert on grade inflation. What I can say is that I was here at the relevant time and consider myself an informed observer. When all are silent about this obvious scandal, to speak up seems to me the responsible thing...
Judith B. McLaughlin, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a national expert on presidential searches, says that the search committee is likely to ensure that a candidate will accept the post before asking the full Board of Overseers, Harvard's second highest governing board, to meet to approve the choice--a step required by Harvard tradition...
...never met a human worth cloning," says cloning expert Mark Westhusin from the cramped confines of his lab at Texas A&M University. "It's a stupid endeavor." That's an interesting choice of adjective, coming from a man who has spent millions of dollars trying to clone a 13-year-old dog named Missy. So far, he and his team have not succeeded, though they have cloned two calves and expect to clone a cat soon. They just might succeed in cloning Missy later this year?or perhaps not for another five years. It seems the reproductive system...
...Americans are in the center.) This year is a particular challenge: the nominations offer the battle of the epics (Gladiator vs. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) as well as the schizophrenic saga of the director with two movies (Steven Soderbergh, with Traffic and Erin Brockovich). Since nobody is an expert on this subject, we can blithely pass along bits of received wisdom and arcane Oscar lore so you will be better informed than your neighbor. To succeed in the Oscar sweepstakes, read the following with a scholar's acuity. Then take a list of the nominees, available from the Academy...
...Richard Atkinson, cognitive psychologist, testing expert and, since 1995, president of the University of California, the SAT has always been a mystery. What, exactly, does it measure? The original exam, developed in the 1920s, was designed to predict how well students would do in college. The Educational Testing Service, which develops the test, insists it still does. But Atkinson, 71, is worried about the growing number of parents pouring thousands of dollars into SAT-prep programs (last year an estimated 150,000 students paid more than $100 million for coaching) and even shopping around for psychologists to certify that their...