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...Spiegelman told a dozen reporters yesterday. All of the plans, displayed on fluorescent green and blue boards in the room, were included in a preliminary report released last June by Harvard’s planning firm, but several artistic renditions of the campus are new. One shows a section of Soldiers Field Road, west of North Harvard Street, buried under a pedestrian walkway. There is also a rendering of a ring of buildings resembling Mather House, touted as a “concept for an undergraduate house as a residential village.” Harris S. Band, Harvard?...
...David Weekly, a developer whose company builds moderately priced houses in six states, says his typical customers are demanding bigger closets and the attendant accessories. More than 75% of his new houses include a walk-in master closet with at least two rows for hanging clothes and an entire section of shelving. "One rod and a shelf isn't enough anymore," he says. Master closets now average about 6 ft. by 8 ft., a size more typical of an extra bedroom 40 years ago. In the low-mortgage-rate McMansions sprouting up throughout the country, every bedroom--not just...
...year history, the test is likely to gain much-needed relevance as an indicator of ability to carry out graduate work. After four years of research consisting chiefly of consultation with the graduate school deans who sit on the GRE board, ETS will revamp all three sections of the test to include different types of questions. The verbal section will shift emphasis away from knowledge of vocabulary and toward critical reading skills, the quantitative section will replace some geometry questions with data interpretation, and the writing section promises to be shorter and more analytical. It is heartening to see such...
...following the lead of business rival IBM and such other major companies as NCR Corp., Sears Holding Corp. and Motorola. The nation's largest employer, Wal-Mart, does not offer such pensions either. At the current pace, human-resources offices will turn out the lights in their defined-benefit section within a decade or so. At that point, individuals will assume all the risks for their retirement, just as they did 100 years...
...test required when applying to many graduate programs, the Educational Testing Service (ETS) is in the process of making major revisions to the material and methods tested on the exam. The ETS, which also made changes to the SAT and the TOEFL last year, will redesign all three sections of the test: Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, and Analytical Writing. The company expects the changes to go into effect in October 2006. Overall, the revisions are an effort to try to make the test more pertinent to the type of work that graduate school demands, according to David G. Payne...