Word: grades
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Except of course when I have apple juice. Thirteen years ago, when he was in fifth grade, my brother and some friends made an amateur movie called "Junkheap One" about a bunch of kids who build a space ship. My favorite character, the one I had provided the inspiration for, begged to leave outer space because of the glaring lack of apple juice. But as huge as apple juice was in the first five years of my life, I lost my way for over a decade and virtually abandoned the drink. But now, with the amber, foam topped glasses...
...Melo, whose formal education ended at fourth grade, learned English gradually in his day-to-day interactions. While his spoken English is now flawless, he can only "write a little bit [and] read a little...
...According to Hughes, the SAT is useful in the admissions office's attempt to quantify the over 18,000 high school students who apply to Harvard every year. Grade point averages, because of grade inflation, are not always helpful tools, Hughes added. He said that many high schools do not even release class rank anymore...
According to Hughes, the SAT is useful in the admissions office's attempt to quantify the over 18,000 high school students who apply to Harvard every year. Grade point averages, because of grade inflation, are not always helpful tools, Hughes added. He said that many high schools do not even release class rank anymore...
...biology advances, some of the differences between the sexes are turning out to be a little more complicated than we learned in 10th-grade biology, when testosterone was clearly the boy hormone and estrogen the girl hormone. Not only are both hormones present in both sexes, but estrogen is a real busybody, acting on just about every kind of tissue there is. Angier likens it to chocolate, "since almost every two-bit organ or tissue wants a bite out of it." Men deficient in estrogen aren't more manly; they're more prone to such diseases as osteoporosis. Women produce...