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...grade on a fixed curve, i.e., to cap the number of high grades in our courses, independent of who happens to be taking our courses, or indeed who has been admitted to attend Harvard in a given year. So too, we can debate whether there is cause for alarm in today’s grading pattern, whatever the cause; it’s certainly true that the present rate of increase can’t go on forever...

Author: By Harry R. Lewis, HARRY R. LEWIS | Title: The Racial Theory of Grade Inflation | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

Assisted by a succession of mother's helpers, or "Jessy- friends," Clara painstakingly tutored her child to read, write, say hello, look people in the eye, refrain from bizarre behavior--flying into tantrums, mumbling nonsense words--that might alarm them, and tolerate deviations from routine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Portrait of the Autist | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...more likely to disturb you than her." Make that my husband. He sleeps through nothing, while I snooze through all manner of commotion. To help him get the recommended eight hours for adults, Owens said we should set limits. For instance, no coming into our room before Daddy's alarm goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Lose Sleep | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...Marsha Bristow Bostick of Columbus remembers noticing with alarm last summer that her three-year-old daughter Betsy had memorized an awful lot of TV commercials. The toddler announced that she planned to take ballet lessons, followed by bride lessons. That helped inspire her mother, then 37, to quit her $150,000-a-year job as a marketing executive. She and her husband, Brent, a bank officer, decided that Betsy and their infant son Andrew needed more parental attention if they were going to develop the right sort of values. Marsha explained, ''I found myself wondering, How wealthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME 1991 Cover Story: The Simple Life | 4/5/2001 | See Source »

...Bush Administration said on Saturday that it would help improve Macedonia's "military capabilities." In Sipkovica the day after last week's shelling, 20 children huddled in a darkened cellar, waiting for the bombs to start falling again. In the gloom, infants and their mothers cried out in alarm as word spread of a new bombardment. "The bombs are coming from the sky!" exclaimed Zeqige Rexhepi, 40, mother of five, wringing her hands. "I don't understand anything anymore." She is not alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebel Hell | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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