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According to Alger, this is a low threshold for judging measures that establish exceptions to federal law--in this case, the employees' right of equal protection...
...Friday decrying the religious and political pressure that has intimidated school boards and publishers around the country into choosing the most watered-down textbooks on evolution. ?This is an issue with a three-generation shelf life,? says TIME senior science writer Jeffrey Kluger. ?Here we are on the threshold of the millennium and we?re still debating this...
...said many worried that this case crossed a"threshold" required for dismissal...
...turned and nodded at the black-clad couple smoking outside as I ducked my head and stepped through a near-invisible door sunk into the back of the building. My brother and I exchanged meaningful glances as we passed over the threshold between the outside world and the first annual Boston Underground Film Festival (BUFF). We knew something was about to happen...
...January 9, 1999 administration of the MECT, 95 percent of the students who were repeat test takers (i.e., had failed before) failed once again. So any variance in test scores isn't big enough, or consistent enough, to push some of these people over the passing threshold. These poor souls also apparently all had the bad luck to get a bad proctor and/or a faulty tape both times they took the test...