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...city's Mongol designers intended as the heart of the metropolis when they planned it in 1272. There were once 6,000 hutongs in Beijing, but the tidal wave of change that has accompanied the city's explosive growth over the last two decades has swept most away. Today, fewer than 1,000 remain...
...opportunities in the first half,” Caples said. “When we have that many, we need to not be satisfied, and we need to have more to show for it.” Scoring opportunities were much fewer and far between in the slow-paced second half. “We dominated possession-wise and territorially in the second half, but we had fewer opportunities,” Caples said. “It got a little scrappy in the second half.” In fact, the ball rarely crossed the midfield line after...
PHYS-ED CLASS The percentage of districts that required elementary schools to teach physical education increased from 83% in 2000 to 93% in 2006. Fewer schools are allowed to punish kids with push-ups, which associates exercise with pain...
...require the scrapping of the preceptor model. Most preceptors’ salaries have remained stagnant—a symptom of tightened spending within the program’s budget—meaning preceptor quality has waned. Reducing the number of students taking Expos would allow Expository Writing to hire fewer, better teachers (for instance, there are only 109 students enrolled in Expos 10). Placing only this small group of students with demonstrated writing need under the tutelage of trained writing professionals would bring every student at Harvard up to a standard writing level.The preceptors for expository writing would then serve...
...mother and a suitcase full of insurance papers before fleeing. "When I pulled out of my driveway, my mind-set was, I was saying good-bye to all my memories," he says. "I thought the whole neighborhood was going to be leveled." When he returned the next morning, fewer than half the homes in his area had survived - including his own. But the sheer scale of the destruction in the city Hamilton has called home for 22 years has left him wondering how San Diego will go on. "I'm mostly numb. I really felt we were losing everything...