Word: 65th
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...Hall. "I wanted to do a musical, but not for real singers and dancers," Allen explains. "I wanted people who could just act, and who would sing with all the emotion of people who are doing the best they can, but it's heartfelt. I went to my parents' 65th anniversary, and they danced. They can't dance. But it had more feeling to it than two people who go to dancing school for 50 years...
...Darwin is named fourth in the book," said Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus Ernst Mayr, who was ranked 65th. "That already is too low. He has changed thinking more than Einstein. There are probably 100 other scientists that could have been chosen instead. [Simmons] made his judgments, and as a human, his judgment is faulty...
Mayr said, however, that "the sequenced ranking is irrelevant. [Being ranked 65th] is purely accidental...
...only 54% of American men and 61% of women could expect to celebrate their 65th birthdays; after they did, the men could expect to live 13 more years, the women 15. By 1990, though, 72% of men and 84% of women could count on reaching the age of 65-and those were percentages of a much larger population. Once past retirement age, the men would live an additional 15 years and the women 20. Some experts think most babies born this year will live for 85 or even 90 years...
...home-school advocates counter that a teacher's certificate is no guarantee of success. They cite study after study showing that home-schooled children excel on standardized tests. While the national average is in the 50th percentile, the average home-schooled students register between the 65th and 80th percentiles. Nor is this unconventional background necessarily a disadvantage when students apply for college. With no grade-point averages or class ranks, no chance to edit the yearbook or captain the soccer team, home- schooled students must have top test scores to win admission to the most selective schools. But many colleges...