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...Roget--and helps run production automatically. The monks got hold of the recipe, originally a health potion, in 1605 but it was so complex they didn't master it for another century. The two monks at La Grande Chartreuse who are each privy to part of the liqueur's formula no longer need to spend their days at Voiron distilling the stuff. Instead, the technology allows the pair to oversee the process remotely via television monitors in their cells. The goal, says Roget, is not to boost production but rather to allow the monks more time for spiritual activities...
...schools complain that the surveys lock them into the same relative space on the list, often because of decades-old impressions. They also argue that the rankings' formula overemphasizes selective admissions data like low acceptance rates and high SAT scores for incoming freshmen while giving short shrift to what really matters but is much harder to measure: the education students receive once they get on campus...
...equality of all participants. “We are not separated between the art and the worker,” he said. Barilaro’s success encouraged Saldarriaga to begin a similar publishing house, Sarita Cartonera, in Lima in February 2004. The effort followed Barilaro’s formula but added an emphasis on educational methodology. According to Saldarriaga, this was an obvious step. “When we started publishing, we came to the question that we need readers. What is the point of publishing these books if you have no readers?” she said through...
...Throughout the 1990s, Cambridge operated under a formula that ensured that each school reflected the racial composition of the district as a whole...
...They want to have further study, to bring Chuck Willie back in, bring others in, so they can consider major changes to the formula,” Fowler-Finn said. “They know that they have to make a change...