Word: equal
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...consequences of randomization must be dealt with adequately. If students are going to be randomly assigned housing, then every student should have equal access to equal facilities, both in the physical plant and the tutorial staff. Universal keycard access and a cluster system of sharing house facilities--such as athletic and artistic space--should be the first steps in solving this problem...
Consider the latest electronic health scare: about the artificial sweetener aspartame, which is found in everything from Equal to Diet Coke. A widely disseminated e-mail by a "Nancy Markle" links aspartame to Alzheimer's, birth defects, brain cancer, diabetes, Gulf War syndrome, lupus, multiple sclerosis and seizures. Right away, the long list warrants skepticism. Just as no single chemical cures everything, none causes everything...
...most of them Roman. His output has never been seen whole since. A team of scholars, headed by curators Peter Humfrey and Mauro Lucco, has done an impressive job of reassembling what remains of it. Dosso emerges from this show as an idiosyncratic, uneven court artist--not remotely an equal to Titian, but stronger and more complex than he'd seemed...
...calculations in his own handwriting. "He knew how to do it," Solomon shrugs. "It was just busywork." In the affluent Boston suburb of Sherborn, Mass., parents at the public Pine Hill School tend to talk about homework in the first-person plural; and they sometimes become more than equal partners in carrying out such third-grade projects as writing up the ownership history of their house, complete with a sketch of the floor plan. Homework has been known to arrive at school two hours after the child does...
...schools sweep problems aside by saying "Kids will be kids"--or, more often, "Boys will be boys"--sexual harassment can become sexual discrimination, since the fear and psychological stress can take a toll on a child's ability to learn and infringe on the Title IX right to an equal education...