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After the referees conferenced to confirm that the foul had occurred before time expired, Lin stepped to the line—by himself—needing to make one of two to seal the win. The first went up, rolled around for a split second, and then slid in, as the team stormed the court to embrace its clutch star...
Killeen also countered published reports that Suleman was trying to negotiate becoming a broadcast-TV child-care expert (NBC denied it paid for its interview with Suleman, the full version of which was scheduled to air on Feb. 9). She did confirm, however, that it is Suleman's desire to pursue paying projects about the birth of the octuplets. "It's not true that she is being paid multiple millions of dollars for going on the media," Killeen told King. "She's not on welfare, has no plans on being a welfare mom and really wants to look at every...
...goes a step further, concluding that some of the ceramic ballistic inserts - bulletproof plates, in layman's terms - in the armor are actually defective. The IG focused on "first article testing," by which any design flaws are spotted and rectified during the manufacturing process. Such testing is meant to confirm that a product meets Army specifications. The audit says the Army didn't perform or score the tests consistently. As a result, the audit report says, "we believe that three of the eight ballistic-insert designs that passed first article testing actually failed." (See pictures of U.S. troops' 5 years...
Early tests had shown that the powder was negative for anthrax and other hazardous material, but authorities were not able to confirm the powder’s chemical makeup for another few days, when final lab results came in, Neely said...
...were awarded "too readily." Princeton in 2004 became the only Ivy League school to adopt a grade-deflation policy, including quotas for A's. To skeptics like Gibson, grades should be guides to help students see where they can improve, not rubber stamps to confirm a smart kid's hunch that he or she is smart or gold stars on a résumé. "Grades don't only exist to be reported to college-admissions officers," he says. Gibson also rejects the Fairgrade argument that adjusting the standards would improve the dropout rate among those at risk of failing...