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...entire prosecution crew because of a purported violation of a pretrial publicity order. ("Meritless," said the prosecutors.) Genson has also loudly pushed his claim that the government's case is much ado about nothing. Sure, the governor was heard talking of selling Obama's seat to the highest bidder, talking of getting Chicago Tribune editorialists fired for being too harsh on his administration and talking about trying to put the squeeze on a children's hospital and on the Tribune, which was looking to sell the Cubs with state help. But does mere talk constitute a crime? "Genson can argue...
...exported e-waste ends up in Guiyu, China, a recycling hub where peasants heat circuit boards over coal fires to recover lead, while others use acid to burn off bits of gold. According to reports from nearby Shantou University, Guiyu has the highest level of cancer-causing dioxins in the world and elevated rates of miscarriages. "You see women sitting by the fireplace burning laptop adapters, with rivers of ash pouring out of houses," says Jim Puckett, founder of Basel Action Network (BAN), an e-waste watchdog. "We're dumping on the rest of the world...
Fitzsimmons added that since Harvard counts each of a student’s highest subscores—in Critical Reading, Mathematics, and Writing—it might still be advantageous to report more than one score...
...have always had the policy that we will take the highest score whenever it occurs,” Fitzsimmons said. “Whether students use score choice or send every single test they’ve ever taken it’s actually not going to change the way we look at their test...
...economy worsened, many Americans consoled themselves with the belief that at least we were better off than people in other rich nations. No more. When you compare the U.S. with Canada, Western Europe and Japan, the news is sobering. Our child-poverty and infant-mortality rates are the highest, our life expectancy is the lowest, our budget deficit as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) is the highest, and our 15-year-olds rank among the lowest on tests of math and science...