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...researchers measured the ratio of facial width across the cheek bones to the height of the face, according to an article in the Cambridge Chronicle. The results, now under review, are based on fourteen years of research and observation of more than 600 Massachusetts children between the ages of four months and 13 years...
...then, It's 1994, and women in their teens and early twenties are being infected with the AIDS virus at alarming rates. The most recent statistics show that while the adults ratio of HIV infection in the United States is eight men to one woman, for adolescents it is 1.7 men to one woman. For the latter, it's a little too close for comfort...
...summer's agreement called for "objective criteria" for measuring progress, and the sticking point ever since has been each side's differing notion of what objective criteria may be. To the White House, the term refers to numerical targets by which to measure the openness of Japanese markets -- the ratio of imports to total GNP is one gauge the U.S. has discussed. The Japanese scorn that approach as "managed trade," saying it would amount to permitting the U.S. to establish import goals for its products in Japan. They prefer vague promises to do better...
...pledge to spend more money on education and prevention than on law enforcement. If approved by Congress, Clinton's overall antidrug budget will climb about $1 billion, but even after including the dubious allocation of $285 million for community policing as a "prevention and treatment" expense, the ratio split will still favor enforcement 59% to 41% -- down only $ slightly from George Bush's emphasis, which had the ratio...
David H. Goldbrenner '96, a student in theclass, agreed that the course's focus is connectedto its gender ratio...