Word: half
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't bother trying to restore affirmative action. Instead it argues that if the U.C. system is going to use race-blind admissions criteria, it really has to be race blind. In calculating GPAs, Berkeley gives extra weight to grades in advanced-placement classes. The problem is, more than half of California schools--many in poor and minority areas--don't even offer these classes. A student who aces every class offered in his high school in the barrio and ends up with 4.0 could lose out to a student from Beverly Hills who gets A's in advanced-placement...
...above ground. It has the same kind of weird beauty as the basement of Antoni Gaudi's Palau Guell. Here and there the lights pick up sparkles of quartz and waste opal crumbs embedded in the stone. You could imagine it as a set for a Wagner opera; you half expect to see Alberich and his dwarfs...
...scam's undoing. State regulators balked when the Virgin Islands-registered Foundation sought to take over U.S. insurance companies. But by early May, when Mississippi and Tennessee regulators began seeking the return of assets from Frankel's Liberty National, Frankel was gone, leaving behind, among other things, a half-million-dollar charge for jet fuel on his credit card. At his house, FBI agents recovered astrological charts intended to answer, among other questions, "Will I go to jail...
...presume? No way, say 8 out of 10 of the 6- to 11-year-olds who answered this question. "Because then I'll have to manage my own money and make my own dinner," explained one boy to a pollster. Despite a precocious fondness for R-rated movies (which half the 9- to 11-year-olds and 81% of 12- to 14-year-olds say they've seen), kids are not even eager to become teenagers. Younger kids have more fun, insist 64% of 6- to 11-year-olds. Even in this era of extracurricular overload, most kids (72%) said...
...looms large in the life of the younger generation: 95% of the kids surveyed said they were believers. Nearly half claimed to attend religious services every week, and 8 out of 10 say they pray. Sure, they may enjoy dipping into the sultry waters of Dawson's Creek on Wednesday nights, but their ideas about sex would cheer William Bennett: 76% of those ages 12 to 14 say it's "somewhat or very important" to wait until marriage before having sex. When the other 24% were asked to name an appropriate age for premarital sex, these pubescent puritans settled...