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Morgan hopes to illuminate the intricate journey women’s swimwear has taken. “The bikini can mean very different things to different generations,” she says. “I hope a knowledge of its beginnings can help readers better understand its contemporary cultural meanings...

Author: By Jane Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Swimwear and its Sex Roles | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

Ironically, a better system to mediate these market failures is one known best to pre-med students: residency matching. After their residency interviews, graduating medical students submit rank-order lists of programs to a centralized matching service, the National Residency Matching Program, which optimizes pairings with the rankings of applicants submitted by individual residency programs. The NRMP utilizes the Gale-Shapley algorithm, introduced to solve the canonical “stable marriage problem.” In this algorithm, pairings between parties are optimized such that all possibility of “infidelity” in matches is precluded...

Author: By Ashin D. Shah | Title: A Second Shot at Summer | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

Young plans to close the achievement gap by focusing on Hispanic, low income, African American/Black, and SPED students, while continuing to encourage White and Asian students, who are currently performing better than the district average...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Young Proposes Middle School Policy | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...plan also emphasizes the need to align the curriculum in all the middle schools and better organize the transition between middle and high schools to level the disparities between the quality of education at the different middle schools...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Young Proposes Middle School Policy | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...beltway and giving it full democratic expression," said Maros Sefcovic, the E.U. commissioner in charge of putting the proposal into place. "The E.U. often stands accused of complexity and detachment from its citizens. Fostering a lively cross-border debate about what we are doing in Brussels will lead to better rule-making, inspired by the grass roots." (See pictures of immigration in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Direct Democracy: Citizen Initiatives Come to Europe | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

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