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...letter noted that the average grade at Dartmouth has risen from 3.06 in 1976-77 to 3.23 in 1992-93. Dartmouth uses the four-point garding scale favored by most American colleges...
...Harvard College, the number of students wishing to enter the world of medicine has steadily increased since 1989, when 123 undergraduates applied to medical schools across the country. In 1990, 130 applied, and by 1992, that figure had risen to 176--a 43 percent jump in just three years...
REALITY: During the past 100 years, the sea level has risen 1 ft. along the U.S. Atlantic Coast, causing beaches to recede between 200 ft. and 300 ft. on average. Stephen Leatherman, director of the University of Maryland's Laboratory for Coastal Research, says sea level is now at the highest mark in the past 5,000 years and is rising as much as 10 times as fast as before...
Which Goldstein did, with shocking efficiency. By 5:20 a.m. about 700 men, women and children, having risen in the dark to down a hurried breakfast, had jammed into the mosque for the dawn prayers that mark the start of the sunrise-to-sunset fast on each of the 30 days of Ramadan. Prayers had just begun; the worshippers were kneeling forward on plastic mats, touching foreheads reverently to the floor...
...rates have risen significantly over the pastdecade. Colditz said that from 1984 through thepresent TB rates have increased at least 20percent nationwide. And in the years from1980-1990, there was a 100 percent increase in NewYork City cases alone...