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...left the family, and Brandon grew up in a neighborhood rife with drugs and gangs, where even little kids learn to act tough. By sixth grade, Brandon was becoming too much for his mom - and his school - to handle. Though he showed promise on aptitude tests, he scored Ds and Fs in his classes and was constantly in trouble for fighting with other students...
Harvard's current connection, a DS-3, is at 90 Mbps...
...academic performance gap that afflicts black students not only in inner cities but also in affluent and well-integrated suburbs like Shaker Heights, Ohio. According to the Washington Post, though blacks make up just over half of Shaker Heights' student body, they account for 84% of those who get Ds or Fs in at least one major subject after the fifth grade. Most black students in Shaker Heights enjoy at least middle-class status. The school system has created special programs to boost black students' test-taking skills. Counseling is available for those with strong potential but low test scores...
...your blitzes and your zone blitzes. You've got your base defenses, your nickel Ds and your dimes, in which six defensive backs with incentive clauses for interceptions are waiting for you to blow a synapse and launch another clay pigeon. Meanwhile, you've got to learn your own playbook, which looks like the manual to the space shuttle, and know exactly what 22 guys are doing at all times when the only thing you can be sure of is that four of them, who happen to be the biggest and ugliest, are eager to tear your head...
...working brain kept in a jar. " That was until the publication last week of his 137-page book, "Le scaphande et le papillion" ("The Diving Suit and The Butterfly), which the onetime chief editor for Elle wrote by using his still functioning left eyelid to blink out wor ds to an assistant. But for Bauby, his escape from the hated "jar" came too late. He died Sunday night in a hospital outside of Paris at the age of 44; the cause of death was not announced. It was an anticlimatic end to a life based on sheer willp ower. Injured...