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NEWS ITEM: 47.6 percent of the college presidents surveyed by U.S. News and World Report last week named Harvard as one of the five best places for undergraduate education. Many commentators played up the slightly higher fraction (48.8 percent) who placed Stanford University in the top five. But that ignores the truly outrageous implication of the first figure. Applying subtraction, one finds that 52.4 percent of these college presidents evidently think Harvard doesn't rank in the top five undergraduate colleges...
Cambridge is currently in the last stages of reassessing every property in the city at 100 percent of its market value. Previous assessments reflected only a fraction of that value...
...have a vote in favor of evolutionary reform." So proclaimed a buoyant South African Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha last week, and for once he was not merely wishing aloud. By a two-to-one majority, some 2.1 million voters - a fraction of the white-dominated country's 30 million inhabitants - had endorsed a proposal sponsored by Botha's ruling National Party to rewrite the South African constitution and soften its policy of whites-only rule. Botha also hailed the outcome of the referendum as "overwhelming." There Prime Minister was stretching matters a bit. Nonetheless, a milestone...
Meselson: they [the yellow spots] have the same diameter as bee feces. They have the same color and texture as bee feces. They have the same number of drops per square foot. The areas that are reported to be covered--a fraction of an acre up to quite a few acres--is the same as the massive flights of bees. That's all we can see with the naked eye. Now we go to what we can see with the microscope. They contain the same high content of pollen, pollen from plants that are mainly pollinated by insects, from plants...
...than any other people F. Lee Bailey, Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, and Wyoming lawyer Gerry Spence have all brought their legal battles from the courtroom to the book stores. As the most romanticized bailiffs, criminal defense lawyers have led this charge though they represent only a small fraction of all lawyers. A still tinier minority work as public defenders representing the accused who can't afford an F. Lee Bailey's legal fees or pique the legal interest of a scholar like Dershowitz...