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...study, conducted by an online news agency, APBnews, and a Pennsylvania consulting firm, the CAP Index, studied the likelihood students would be victims of violent crime on campus and in the surrounding neighborhoods...
Some schools have criticized the fact that CAP Index refused to release the 11 factors that went in to the computations...
Port said the consulting firm would not release proprietary company information, but he said he believed the scale was accurate. CAP Index has been 70 percent to 90 percent accurate in predicting levels of actual crime, he said...
...Vientiane International School, I read with great interest the article on new software programs for students [Oct. 4]. I found it ironic that the Encarta Reference Suite 2000 was endorsed as a tool when it encourages plagiarism. An application that allows students to "cut and paste'' electronic information to index cards, then export that material to a word-processing program for editing and arranging, clearly does just that. In addition, it gives the students the impression that Encarta is the be-all and end-all in the research process. Research, however, means hunting and collecting information from a wide variety...
...challenges, small business is still bullish. As just one example, the National Federation of Independent Businesses' small-business optimism index, a measure of perceived growth prospects, rose to 102.4 in September, a jump of nearly three points from a year ago. Says NFIB chief economist Bill Dunkelberg: "Small businesses love challenge and change. There's no better time to be a small business...