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...mother, I shuddered to read Madonna's pathetically low benchmark for motherhood: "Even if I'm the worst mother in the world, I'm better than death!" The comment was insensitive and reeked of arrogance. While Madonna's giving huge sums of money to charity is laudable, one needs an entirely different set of skills to be a good mother to an adopted child. I wonder whether Madonna understands that...
...hour, an annual income of $62,589, which is about 135% higher than the median household income in the U.S. Boston on a whole has slightly higher wages—the median was $52,792 per year in the 2000 census for the metropolitan area—but whatever benchmark is used, SLAM’s figure is inflated. While many on campus agree that Harvard ought to value its workers, it is absurd to claim that Harvard must pay far above the market wage. Because of its unwavering commitment to these ridiculous demands, SLAM drives moderate sympathizers away...
Cambridge Public School Committee member Joseph G. Grassi said that he was disappointed with the Department of Education’s choice to increase the test’s benchmark score so early...
...subjects were also monitored for lung health based on their performance in a series of breathing tests over a period of approximately five years. The study used the peak expiratory flow rate—the amount of air a person exhales in one minute—as the benchmark for assessing lung health. This rate normally declines with age, though the study shows that avid churchgoers experience about half the rate of decline as those who did not attend church. Lead author of the paper Joanna M. Maselko, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at HSPH, said...
...amid outrage over the disclosure of his $140 million compensation package; of as much as $100 million of that compensation; by a state supreme court judge; in New York City. The ruling, which Grasso said he would appeal, coincided with other big news from Wall Street: the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 12,000-point mark for the first time...