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...Rome she gains 23 lbs.--you could put on weight just reading her description of authentic, weapons-grade Italian pizza--and learns the mystical art of bel far niente, "the beauty of doing nothing." In India she studies meditation at an ashram. In Bali she imbibes the wisdom of her medicine man, and her newfound serenity is tested by a Brazilian swain named Felipe...
...them like children. Even the most obscure medical studies are easily accessible. Forget Dr. Spock. I can peruse Danish researchers' findings on the connection between bed wetting and the color blue or whether being exposed to Donald Trump in utero makes my daughter more likely to fail the third grade...
Learning about grades this late into the semester can be more than a minor inconvenience. Aside from toying with the mental health of more obsessive pupils, the grade delays may have jeopardized summer job prospects or grant applications—particularly for those students who had really planned to turn a new leaf in the fall 2005 semester. Moreover, late grades meant that in many cases, students could not use their course performance from last semester to guide shopping period decisions...
While we are indeed proud of the swanky redesign of the Registrar’s website, we remain too often unmoved by what’s under the hood. In addition to the disappointing delays in grade delivery, the Registrar’s attempts to better accommodate students with a more user-friendly site frustratingly lacks online transcript request processing. Such a feature is undoubtedly technologically feasible, and would save time for both students—who would be spared long walks and the experience of writing $2 personal checks—and the registrar—who would...
...disparities. “We need some ways to get people’s attention and to cultivate a sense of urgency about addressing achievement gaps,” he said. Cambridge scored 253rd out of 278 districts statewide on the 2005 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) 10th grade English exam. It scored just slightly better—251st—on the MCAS 10th grade math exam. —Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard.edu...