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...University as an institution is not taking legal action because it seems to us that the question is heavily a political one in terms of the decisions of the Congress and executive branch,” Summers said...
...China, where there are more than 900 KFC restaurants and at least one new branch opening every other day, the outlook is much sunnier. The mainland now constitutes about 15% of Yum's operating profits ($273 million in the third quarter of 2003) and accounts for approximately 40% of its international business, according to Speiser. And because China's population is about five times that of the U.S., the company figures this is just the corporate equivalent of an appetizer. "There should be tens of thousands of KFCs, Pizza Huts and Taco Bell Grandes here," says...
...with what it was doing to the family...I got really tired [of it].” But childhood frustrations often prove transient and fickle, and Howard is now doing exactly what she got tired of in elementary school. This Quincy resident is writing a thesis on a specific branch of Tibetan Buddhism for her Sanskrit and Indian Studies concentration...
...Tohir and Ismail. Police suspect they were part of a five-man Jemaah Islamiah (JI) cell that planned and executed the bombing of Jakarta's JW Marriott hotel in August, killing 12. The two suspects may also have been plotting more attacks on American-owned businesses, including the branch of an international bank in Bandung, the province's bustling capital. "They had been surveying the bank but had yet to set a date for the attack," says one of the arresting officers...
...world of standardized testing has its own language and history; an entire branch of science, psychometrics, is devoted to test design and analysis. But the tiny discipline touches most Americans' lives at some point. Psychometricians help devise tests for fire fighters, lawyers, architects, teachers and, of course, kids. Virtually every American child takes a standardized test at some point, and yet there is widespread confusion over what tests do and do not measure. Insta-experts from the media and from antitesting groups often repeat fallacies: blacks do better in college than their SAT scores predict (actually, for reasons that aren...