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...central feature of this equation is a value referred to as the Academic Index (AI) number. Pioneered by former Dean of Harvard College Fred Jewett, the adoption of AI by the Ivy League in the early 1980s was intended to guarantee a level of academic excellence across the board for all sports...
...encouraged by stepped-up Russian assistance, the Northern Alliance has launched a serious offensive against the Taliban. The Alliance troops have advanced some 30 miles, and are now fighting at the outskirts of the key Taliban-held town of Mazari-aI-Sharif. However, under pressure from Russia - and following Sunday's secret talks in Dushanbe between Russian Chief of the General Staff Anatoli Kvashnin and the new Northern Alliance commander Mohamed Fakhim-Khan, who has replaced the slain Ahmad Shah Masood - the Northern Alliance has changed its previous stand on the U.S. military presence...
...contribution created a whole new realm of science: optical technology. DIED. WANG RUOSHUI, 75, Chinese intellectual banned from publishing in the mainland; in Boston. Wang acted as the senior editor of the People's Daily until he was fired in 1987 for advocating democracy. He and his wife Feng Ai moved to Cambridge last year to take positions as visiting scholars at Harvard University. RETIRED. YVES SAINT LAURENT, 65, famed designer for 40 years and a pioneer of both the pantsuit and the female tuxedo; in Paris (see tribute). RETIRED. GEORGE CAREY, 66, from the position of Archbishop of Canterbury...
...pretty much got it. He with two acoustic guitarists on either side. He started out with the song "Fadas" a graceful, toe-tapping tune that that skips along as lightly as a stone across a pond. Next he flowed into the goodhearted song "Diz Que Fui Por Ai"; during the instrumental break, he couldn't resist dancing around his stool as his guitarists carried the melody. It was pure enchantment; not just Brazilian music at its best, but art at its finest as well. Melodia's set carried a heavy burden of soul but managed to nonetheless be light...
Math-phobics of the world take heart - if a monkey can do it, anybody can. Researchers at Kyoto University have taught a female chimp named Ai to count and manipulate numbers. In an article published in a forthcoming edition of Nature, researchers report that Ai was usually able to memorize and repeat sequences when flashed with any five numbers between 1 and 9 in random order - putting her at least on par with the average preschooler. Adult humans, in contrast, usually have a difficult time remembering more than seven random numbers (hence the length of phone numbers). Animals have long...