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...from providing more clarity to the distinctions between America’s best colleges, the new ranking of the top 50 American colleges, published by The Atlantic Monthly, serves a better purpose—exposing the limitations of college ranking systems and the influence their underlying criteria have on the results. According to the magazine, the goal of its new rankings is to show how meaningless rankings...
Barnett also said that the Supreme Court has ruled that intrastate commerce that affects interstate commerce also falls under Congressional jurisdiction, but he argued that the current case in California does not meet this criteria because of the small number of people involved in the Oakland cooperative...
...schools, fellowship committees and job interviewers will use them to judge us. But mostly, we care out of habit, because those credentials were the bedrock of our self-esteem for over a dozen years of schooling. We are pressured to evaluate ourselves on the admissions office’s criteria because those credentials have always brought us the most effusive praise, not to mention acceptance at Harvard and high-powered opportunities once we leave...
...already adopted the euro. Economic growth in Sweden is expected to hit 1.4% this year, compared to 0.4% in recessionary Germany. Unemployment in Sweden is just 5.4%, almost half of the jobless total in Germany or France. And most ironic of all, nonmonetary member Sweden has met the deficit criteria of the Stability and Growth Pact designed to support the euro, while the biggest monetary members Germany and France have repeatedly flouted the pact's limits...
...girls had experienced symptoms of PTSD during the preceding six months--surprisingly high percentages for a snapshot study of this kind. Among the most common triggers were sexual or physical assaults, but just witnessing a violent act was often enough. Nearly three-quarters of those who met the criteria for PTSD had also experienced major depression, substance abuse or substance dependence...