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...reserved for the state's academic achievers. As it stands now, however, only about half of all U.C. students are admitted solely on the basis of grades and test scores. The rest have benefited from a complex equation that awarded points for race or gender, including an ethnic-origin formula so hairsplitting that Mexican Americans were given more weight than other Latinos...
...music videos. Now in its fourth season, the documentary series follows the lives of six or seven carefully chosen young strangers, brought together to live for several months in a home seemingly decorated from a Pottery Barn catalog. The cast members and locales change each year, but the formula doesn't. The producers assemble distinctive and contrasting personalities -- the current season, set in London, pits Neil, a bookish, anti-American Brit, against Mike, a McDonald's-loving Missouri jock -- and then wait for the inevitable clashes...
Pressed for her secret, the youthful matron eventually revealed she had been taking birth-control pills, containing estrogen and a second female hormone, progesterone. That was the very formula Wilson had developed as a means not only to treat menopausal complaints but also to forestall the aging process. Mrs. P.G. was a lush exemplar of his notion that "menopause is unnecessary. It can be prevented entirely...
...rhythms and the kind of enigmatic lyrics one would usually expect from alternative rock. Says Des'ree: "I think British soul tends to be less conventional. American soul music seems to be going through a phase now where most of the songs are quite similar. They've found a formula that works, and I don't know if they've exhausted it, but they're employing it quite...
Independence Day thus repeats the effective formula of The Sportswriter: a flurry of intense activity in the present, coinciding with a holiday and offering Frank time to ruminate on a past that still troubles him and whose meaning he would like to pin down...