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...their overburdened counterparts in private and suburban schools, students in Boston's 11 public district high schools give homework such a low priority that many no longer bother to carry a backpack. Frustrated teachers say often only a handful of students turn in homework, making it nearly impossible to discuss course material. The Boston Globe reported that as many as 20% of teachers have, in response, simply stopped assigning homework. "Peculiar to urban high schools is the notion that homework is an imposition," laments Boston High English teacher Riza Gross. "It's horrifying and deteriorating...
...billion in market capitalization, built on decades of solid earnings: Intel. And in the other corner the new tech challenger, having briefly hit $50 billion in market cap last week, and with dynamite earnings potential: Yahoo. These two heavyweights, by coincidence, held overlapping conference calls last week to discuss their fourth-quarter earnings reports with investment professionals. Intel is a bellwether because of its ubiquity in personal computers, so it has always drawn the bigger group of acolytes--until this year. Yahoo muscled in with runaway revenue projections, and suddenly many investment pros, who would normally have stopped everything...
Ironically, as we discuss downsizing, the Dartmouth Student Assembly has worked to increase participation and interest from the student body by increasing membership from 35 to about 70 since September. As our peers at other schools know, small student government membership does not automatically lead to great credibility and effectiveness...
...graduate board is holding theirbiannual meeting next Wednesday to discuss allbasic rules and policies. Duffell said this issuewill also be discussed...
Anderson thinks North's scare tactics are counterproductive for most women. "It's so intense," she says. "Women go, 'I can't deal with this!'" And so Anderson is part of a yuppie-ish Y2K-readiness group that meets once a month to discuss risks and learn self-reliance skills. The four couples who take part are learning how to roll their own oats for cereal, shop for paraffin lamps--those don't give off smoke--and preserve fruit. French coffee presses, they have discovered, are perfect for sprouting seeds. If Martha Stewart ran a survivalist sect, it might...