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...students should receive e-mails from their professors or TFs with a personal grade breakdown for the year, as well as a class-wide grade distribution on finals in larger classes. This would allow students to understand grades they haven’t necessarily kept track of, such as homework and midterm scores, as well as grades they often never see, such as those for final exams and section participation. Seeing what areas of the course they needed the most improvement in would help students learn more from the class...
Last week, the California Supreme Court voted 4-3 to recognize same-sex marriage. The decision makes the state the second in the country after Massachusetts to allow the practice. The Court justified its ruling by the constitutional right to marry and the right to equal protection...
...dreading. More and more, all this wrangling over risks and benefits is leading confused parents simply to opt out of vaccines altogether. Despite the rules requiring students to be vaccinated, doctors can issue waivers to kids whose compromised immune system might make vaccines risky. Additionally, all but two states allow waivers for children whose parents object to vaccines on religious grounds; 20 allow parents to opt out on philosophical grounds. Currently, nearly one-half of 1% of kids enrolled in school are unvaccinated under a medical waiver; 2% to 3% have a nonmedical one, and the numbers appear...
...down when the Iraqis have their own air power. No modern ground force can succeed without air reconnaissance, weapons deployment or the rapid recovery of the injured. The U.S. would never send our troops on any mission without air support. But it seems the U.S. has no plans to allow the Iraqis a fully equipped air force. Paul Schrader, SANDWICH, MASS...
...penalty kicks by Manchester United in the European Champion's League final played in the Russian capital. But the banker's complaint was simply that he had no way to move around the Moscow to keep appointments, given the traffic restrictions all over the city to allow smooth passage for the 970 special buses whisking Chelsea and United fans, separately, from airports to specially equipped "fan towns" at opposite ends of the mammoth Luzhniki stadium. All serious business in the city would cease by 4 p.m., the banker continued; it just didn't make sense to carry on working with...