Word: fractionalized
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...middle 65 to 75 percent are assigned a Category II grade.Zaman and Ruback both said that grading system does not seem to provide the right incentives to make students focus on their academic work.“People think that they won’t be in the top fraction of the class and that they won’t fail out,” Zaman said, “so many of them take on the attitude that they don’t need to work as hard.”Ruback wrote in his letter that optional disclosure...
...Spokespeople for several other peer schools were not available for comment last night or said that they had not yet released their early-admission figures. Fitzsimmons said the number of students this fall requesting fee waivers on their applications is almost identical to the number last year, when the fraction of students asking for waivers jumped nearly 50 percent from 2003, to 215. The admissions office attributed the sustained increase principally to the new Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, under which the College no longer requires parental contributions from families with annual incomes below $40,000. The initiative also reduces...
...must keep the pressure on our governments if we want them to follow through. As voters and taxpayers, we must give our leaders permission to invest just a fraction of our taxes in $5 mosquito nets and drug treatments that cost pennies apiece. Right now in Washington, Congress is deciding whether to provide $3.6 billion in global AIDS funding, including $600 million for the global health fund, thanks to Democrat Dick Durbin and Republican Rick Santorum. If this money is not approved, people across Africa will have to be taken off lifesaving medications. How mad is that...
Partners in Health began enrolling AIDS patients in Rwanda in June and by last month was treating more than 300 with ARVs. It is on track to reach 1,000 by next spring--but that's just a fraction of the estimated 250,000 HIV-positive Rwandans who need food, housing, clean water and schools as well as medicine. The Global Fund subsidizes the drugs, but donors are reluctant to pay for the calories, arguing that food aid is never-ending and "unsustainable." Farmer, ever the optimist, is undismayed. "You start down this slippery slope," he says...
...technology cannot eliminate the difficulty Hubbert identified: the rate of producing oil depends on the fraction of oil that has not yet been produced. In other words, the fewer the fish in the pond, the harder it is to catch one. Peak production occurs at the halfway point. Based on the available data about new oil fields, there are 2,013 billion bbl. of total producible oil. Adding up the oil produced from the birth of the industry until today, we will reach the dreaded 1,006.5-billion-bbl. halfway mark late this year. For two years, I've been...