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...least 135 people who theoretically had access to open stairwells--and enough time to use them--never made it out, the report found.Since the early days of the atom bomb, scientists have been trying to understand how to move masses of people out of danger. Engineers have fashioned glowing exit signs, sprinklers and less flammable materials. Elaborate computer models can simulate the emptying of Miami or the Sears Tower, showing thousands of colored dots streaming for safety like a giant Ms. Pac-Man colony. But the most vexing problem endures. And it is not signage or architecture or traffic flow...
According to Campbell, exit surveys show that on average, students are more satisfied with graduate student advisers than with faculty advisers. Campbell says a possible reason is that graduate students can give more time and attention to their advisees’ projects...
...fact, a 2003 exit survey cited in the report found that of 69 percent of seniors who had initially planned to write a thesis, only 57 percent actually began the process—and only 48 percent finished...
According to national exit polls, turnout among voters 18-24 was at 42.3 percent, up 5.8 percentage points since 2000. This number is likely even higher when college students that voted absentee are included...
...Advancement of Learning (Countryman Press; 254 pages; $14.95) was written by Briton Reginald Hill in 1971 as the second book featuring his police duo Dalziel and Pascoe, but this is its first appearance in the U.S. Hill has written better books since, including this year's Exit Lines and the chilling 1984 portrait of a psychopath, Deadheads. Nonetheless, this volume is a skillful reworking of a standard routine in mystery fiction: the discovery of a long-buried skeleton and the consequent unraveling of a skein of past concealment and deceit. The setting is a mediocre British college, recently converted from...