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...eventually settled on three ways for students to slice a year off of their education: skipping twelfth grade and entering Harvard a year early; replacing the freshman year of college with three full credits (either from advanced high school classes or other college coursework); and condensing undergraduate and graduate education to seven years. These proposals, along with a proposal to grant students placement into higher-level courses, were presented to the Faculty the next spring...
...perfectionism that impelled him forward in the Lampoon lay behind this academic success. He researched a thesis called “Non-Horatian Elements in Robert Herrick’s Imitations and Echoes of Horace” and was frustrated when it didn’t snag a summa grade...
...relaxed way he was very aware of his responsibilities,” Heymann said. In fact, Heymann said, Cox brought the examinations from his HLS class along with him to Washington to grade while he conducted his investigation...
...lower than 4 ng/mL of blood meant the patient was cancer free. But a study of 2,950 men published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that 15% of those with PSA levels less than 4 actually had cancer, and almost 15% of those men had "high grade" tumors, which can become aggressive. Doctors fear that the news will trigger a flood of requests for unnecessary biopsies. Although more biopsies will lead to more early diagnoses, most prostate cancers grow so slowly that it's hard to say whether early detection is worth it. The study's authors...
...rather than obesity, it showed that improvements in the lunchroom, gym class and health instruction could change kids' eating habits and activity levels at school and at home. And the lessons stuck. A follow-up study three years later found that kids who had been through CATCH from third grade through fifth grade still had a healthier diet and were more physically active when they reached middle school than control-group kids...