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Last year, more than half (56 percent) of the nine chemistry and physics concentrators graduated summa cum laude; 40 percent of the 10 linguistics concentrators did; and 22 percent of the nine concentrators in women's studies did. Meanwhile, large departments like economics or government hover around the more selective two percent range...
Edwards said if multiple candidates continue to split the mainstream vote, Buchanan can remain a viable candidate, even though his vote tallies in states hover around 25 to 30 percent...
...populace bothered to vote in the December presidential election because most Haitians reject the constitutional restrictions that bar Aristide from serving successive terms. Bound by a promise extracted by Clinton, Aristide grudgingly stepped down, but the charismatic populist shows every intention of running again in 2000 and will hover powerfully over the political scene, a force so dominant it scarcely matters whether he holds office...
WRITING HIS NATURAL HISTORY IN THE FIRST CENTURY A.D., Pliny the Elder reported that when water rises into the atmosphere to form rain clouds, it sucks up with it shoals of fish and sometimes quantities of stones. Fish and stones hover above us in the sky. Elsewhere, Pliny offered an item about a woman who gave birth to an elephant. He was, occasionally, a supermarket-tabloid sort of Roman...
...KEILLAN LECKY DREADED kindergarten. So many of the words her playmates gleefully shouted or conspiratorially whispered seemed to hover just out of reach, as elusive as a vanishing rainbow. Her difficulty understanding them was starting to affect her schoolwork. Then, last summer, Keillan, along with 21 other language-impaired children, was enrolled in an experimental program at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, in which the kids improved their auditory skills by playing computer games. The change in Keillan and the others was so remarkable, says Paula Tallal, co-director of the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers...