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...past six years, I can verify that education is a building block to eliminating poverty, oppression and extremism [Jan. 28]. I have seen remarkable social, political and economic changes in the more than 20,000 children my project represents, particularly the girls. They are marrying later and having fewer offspring. Children are learning much needed life skills. More important, there is now hope. Despite staggering odds, kids are thinking about the future. There is new respect for the rule of law and support for democracy. Children are learning common languages and even playing soccer together. Schools are not simply...
...even have a course schedule,” he said. “Those days are over.” Discussion of the report was not entirely self-congratulatory, however. Schuster said that while the proportion of Cambridge students passing standardized tests are the near the state average, comparatively fewer Cambridge students score at the higher “proficient” level. Simmons also emphasized the need to track students further, saying that the district should determine how students who graduate fare in their college career. “It’s one thing to graduate, it?...
...only rough guides for how much virus is circulating in an infected person's body; it's well known that HIV levels can blip upwards periodically. In addition, viral-load readings are generally done once every three months, so even if the virus is undetectable, which means there are fewer than 40 copies of HIV per ml of blood, there is no way of knowing what a person's viral count is at any given time. "There is no way of knowing what the viral count is for a person at home about to engage in a sexual encounter," says...
...alternatively, fewer people are concentrating in Government because we’re not offering enough courses or they had a bad experience, that’s bad for us,” she said...
...record to 8-0 overall and 7-0 EISL. The Crimson also rebounded from a defeat at the hands of Princeton at last year’s HYP meet, when the Tigers managed to escape with a victory despite the fact that Harvard won 19 events—one fewer than the combined total of the other two squads. This year, the Crimson came armed with both depth and speed, and refused to allow the Tigers to top the podium for the second year in a row.“Last year we won the majority of the events...