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According to education professor Haney, more and more Texas minority students have dropped out of high school since the introduction of the state exam, from about 35% in the late 1980s to 40% through most of the 1990s. The Texas Education Agency dismisses Haney's calculations as inflated and says...
This year Stanford University accepted 26% of the 35 homeschoolers who applied--nearly double its overall acceptance rate. Twenty-three of this fall's 572 freshmen at Wheaton College in Illinois were homeschooled, and their SAT scores average 58 points higher than those of the overall class. "Often we're...
Ever since the Coreys--Haim and Feldman--stopped getting arrested and started their world domination of the straight-to-video shelf, there's been a profound lack of screwed-up teen heartthrobs. But BRAD RENFRO, 18, appears ready to step up. Last week Renfro, who made his debut in The...
Many patients suffering from high blood pressure were probably surprised last week to hear that one of the most popular class of drugs for treating their condition--calcium channel blockers--was being blamed for some 85,000 avoidable heart attacks and heart failures a year. Their doctors were less likely...
Calcium channel blockers were introduced 20 years ago to great fanfare in part because the science seemed so easy to follow. The drugs work by blocking calcium from initiating muscle contractions in the heart and the walls of blood vessels. This allows blood vessels to relax, reducing blood pressure. More...