Word: 10th
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More than 100 10th-graders boycotted the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests--a state-mandated exam--last month, as well as dozens of fourth- and eighth-graders...
...women's heavyweight team has already wrapped up its season, earning a trip to the NCAA finals, where it placed 10th among the nation's best crews...
...After earning a berth in the NCAA women's rowing championships, the Black-and-White finished in 10th as a team, and 12th in the varsity eight race, despite being ranked fourth in the country entering the race...
This month the ninth and 10th volumes in the 1 1/2-year-old series will appear: historian Douglas Brinkley's Rosa Parks and novelist and critic Elizabeth Hardwick's Herman Melville. Atlas' original notion--short biographies by great writers--may have been tinged with a little inspired hyperbole, but as general editor he has overseen the production of short biographies (roughly 200 pages each) by some very good writers indeed, including Garry Wills (on Saint Augustine), Larry McMurtry (on Crazy Horse) and Mary Gordon (on Joan of Arc). All the authors were paid advances from $50,000 to $100,000, and those...
...industry is also banking heavily on another form of wireless--short-range-radio technology, the basis for its new Bluetooth protocol (named for a 10th century king who unified Denmark). Bluetooth, whose first stages will be rolled out this summer by a consortium of industry titans including Nokia, Ericsson, IBM and 3Com, will eventually let all your devices talk to each other and work together. Click on a name in your Bluetooth-enabled PDA, and it will find your cell phone (even if it's still in your briefcase) and place the call. If you have a Bluetooth-enabled earphone...