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...cases progresses slowly and may not require aggressive treatment. In March, a 10-year National Cancer Institute study involving more than 76,000 men seemed to make the case for watchful waiting. About half of the study volunteers were randomly assigned to the screening group, getting either a manual exam or a prostate-specific antigen test each year; the latter test measures blood levels of a protein associated with prostate cancer. The other study participants received no screening guidance and were left to decide on their own whether they would get a yearly test. At the seven-year mark...
...this year’s reading period is only one week long—a full three days shorter. For many, this adjustment resulted in a far more hectic Thanksgiving recess than in years past, as students faced returning from break with fast-approaching paper due dates and impending exams. In the past, this arrangement would not be such a problem (the spring semester has always transitioned from classes directly into reading and exam period), but because reading period has been shortened from ten days to seven days in both the fall and spring semesters, the term-end transition...
...course, we recognize that larger academic assignments such as papers and projects will inevitably pile up at the end of the semester. Yet students suffer even more from a shorter reading period because professors are not allowed to assign paper deadlines during exam period. This means that all papers must be completed before the end of reading period, rather than having this work more spread out. In light of the condensed reading period, professors should be given the flexibility to set paper deadlines during exam period—a paper due during exam period is much preferable to a premature...
...SOON, a 68-year-old South Korean woman who passed her country's written driver's-license exam on her 950th...
...were so obsessed with our kids' success that parenting turned into a form of product development. Parents demanded that nursery schools offer Mandarin, since it's never too soon to prepare for the competition of a global economy. High school teachers received irate text messages from parents protesting an exam grade before class was even over; college deans described freshmen as "crispies," who arrived at college already burned out, and "teacups," who seemed ready to break at the tiniest stress. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...