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...knowledge is to place a teacher in front of a small group. Technology would play a primary role in Whittle's new classroom. Each Whittle school would be linked by closed-circuit television to a central studio, which might result in a 1-to-1 million teacher-to-student ratio. Interactive electronic data banks would allow students to do comprehensive research on their own. Notebook computers would be as common as lunch boxes...
...election goes to the House, the Democrats would have a nominal advantage. Conventional wisdom suggests that partisanship would also steer each chamber of Congress. But that might not hold. In the present House, Democratic-controlled delegations outnumber Republican ones by a ratio...
Councillors proposed an ordinance which would require an employee ratio of 50 percent Cambridge resident, 25 percent minority and 10 percent women for all firms contracted by the city...
...among first-years choosing the EconomicsDepartment, the male-female ratio is even lower.Of the 127 who chose economics, 99 are male, whileonly 28 are female...
...will suffer at some time. The Justice Department says that 83% of all Americans will be victims of a violent crime at least once in their lives. Forty years ago, there were three cops for every violent felony. Today there are 3.3 violent felonies for each officer. Returning the ratio to its 1950s level should be a first priority, and a first step is to break out and pass two provisions of the crime bill currently stalled in Congress. One would provide about $1 billion in extra law-enforcement assistance to local areas. An environment of disorder -- broken windows, graffiti...