Word: imperfections
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Despite what they acknowledge are imperfect estimates, the students who compiled the project said their work has some informational value...
...these lines of research are making it clear that attacking obesity as a physiological disorder is scientifically sound and that Redux--imperfect though it may be--is a step in the right direction. Says Yale psychologist Kelly Brownell: "We're at a historic moment in the treatment of obesity. The drugs themselves are less important than the fact that drugs for obesity are again on the scene." A new generation of antiobesity medicines is in the pipeline, under active development by drug companies, and yet another generation is sure to follow. As popular as Redux may be, both...
Instead of quickly forgetting how we revered the rankings when we came in number one, and instead of ranting about how the survey is "necessarily imperfect," let's be thankful that the world now knows what we know in our hearts: student selectivity is only the first step. The education we receive once we get here counts too, and for now, Yale and Princeton have us beat...
While the ranking of colleges is an arbitrary business, necessarily imperfect and inherently subjective, we feel that if the U.S. News is going to continue its annual survey, its editors might as well find a way to reach the correct conclusions. Whatever can be said about Harvard's performance in the last year, the thought that it could be outdone by lesser schools in Connecticut and New Jersey is, well, preposterous...
...Brien the chance to make a clean break with the past imperfect begins next week in Atlanta on July 31, the first of the decathlon's grueling two days. It is an irony of Olympic fever that one can be, like O'Brien, a three-time world champion and the world record holder in an event and yet, minus that gold, still be only an athlete-in-waiting. But while it is unwise to be too cocksure, O'Brien, who turned 30 last week, is primed. He not only expects the gold but says, "I want to do it right...