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...meeting opened with a presentation of the revamped CUE evaluation form—used to collect student feedback for the annual CUE course evaluation guide—which student members had reworked. The deletion of several multiple-choice questions and the rearrangement of others left more room for the more general, written-response queries...
Though the CUE discussed several benefits of using the Web to collect information—for example, members said, it might allow instructors to custom-design certain elements of their own forms to make them appropriate for their classes—they agreed that an online system would have its drawbacks...
...tobacco bonds, which are state-issued debt backed by future payments of tobacco companies as part of a landmark 1998 liability settlement. States including California and New York have issued some $18 billion of these bonds to get their mitts on the tobacco loot now rather than wait to collect it in dribs and drabs over the next few decades. The bonds have always offered a higher yield than similarly rated munis--today, about 5.5% vs. 4.1%--because no taxing authority stands behind them, only a handful of private companies that a lot of folks would like...
...Red’s dominant performance scooping up ground balls provided the final nail in the coffin, as Harvard managed to collect only 23 out of 66. Cornell’s success earned it extra possessions and translated into the additional shots that simply overwhelmed the Crimson defense...
...many Argentines for the country's current economic malaise. meanwhile in the u.k. ... A Sweet Deal The Cadbury company has a new promotion called Get Active, in which the firm donates sports equipment to schools in exchange for chocolate wrappers. To earn a free basketball, enterprising children have to collect 170 wrappers - about 8.3 kg-worth of chocolate. They'd have to play basketball for 90 hours to work that off. Cadbury said it wasn't trying to encourage kids to eat more chocolate, just to save more wrappers...