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...process proceeds at such a rigorous clip, the changes to the curriculum could start to go into effect during the 2005-2006 academic year, Kirby said...
...best stretch was a 7-1 run late in the frame to push it past the Lions, 29-28, going into the locker room. Harvard shot 33 percent from the field in the first half, but performed much better in the second, when it shot at a 48-percent clip. On the game, the Crimson converted 73 percent of its opportunities from the free-throw line, much improved from the night before...
...past three years, U.S. stocks have fallen an average 16% a year, and foreign stocks have fallen even harder. But there is no question that foreign markets can outperform the U.S. for years at a clip, and it looks as if we're entering just such a period. The falling buck is a big part of that. As the dollar weakens, foreign stocks held by U.S. investors become more valuable because the underlying foreign currencies appreciate...
...more than a decade now, scientists have been puzzling over these ice streams, and the consensus they have reached is both reassuring and disturbing. On one hand, they note, the overall rate at which the ice streams are transporting ice--at the relatively brisk clip of hundreds of feet a year--does not seem to have increased in recent decades. On the other hand, the streams have been extremely erratic--accelerating, decelerating, sometimes even stopping. And miles inland, the streams have shown surprising sensitivity to ocean tides, raising the specter that modest rises in sea level could accelerate their flow...
...without Friends-style salary increases or creative exhaustion. "Other shows eventually descend into a kind of soap opera," says Dragnet executive producer Walon Green. "Dick's shows are really cleverly disguised anthologies." As Dragnet star Ed O'Neill notes, this means Wolf's actors don't get Emmy-clip dramatic scenes. "That 'My kitten died' stuff," he says, "that's just not going to happen...