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Such a proposal, as critics have already argued, would make classes more competitive because it would be in every student's interest to have others do worse. It would also distort reality because grades would be evaluated compared to how the rest of the class did. While in large classes this might prove useful, in smaller ones where the entire class may have worked exceptionally hard it could easily devalue hard work. One cannot evaluate the rigors of a course by just looking at numbers...
Hagstrum's proposal is based on the tracking of seismic waves generated by earthquakes and explsions, which indicates that such waves emanating from a huge impact would be focused by the earth, converging on the antipode and releasing their energy there. This concentration of energy might heat and distort the crust, eventually creating plumes through which magma could burst to the surface...
Furthermore, not only was it an amazing clutch performance, but it put her on the box of Wheaties for the next eight months. I guess the idea was that you too can be a champion like Retton, as long as you're under five feet tall and able to distort your body like a Yoga master...
...growing demand for professionals tends to mask the fact that millions of service workers remain stuck in jobs like waiter or sales clerk that pay little more than the $4.25-an-hour minimum wage. "All you have to do is hire two Goldman Sachs partners and you probably distort the average wage scale throughout the service sector," quips Bruce Greenwald, a management professor at the Columbia Business School...
Asked to name which programs he might be willing to cut to help balance the budget, Gingrich flatly refuses. "I don't want to give people like Tom Foley a single thing to distort and expand into an attack." He does tick off a few items, such as putting Medicaid recipients into managed care and implementing tighter procurement practices at the Pentagon, which he insists could produce $125 billion to $150 billion in savings over five years. That would still be far short of the $700 billion or so that analysts say would have to be cut in the next...